Faithful invited to priesthood ordination
Archbishop George H. Niederauer will ordain transitional Deacons Wade Bjerke and David Shunk to the priesthood June 26 at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Gough St. at Geary Blvd. in San Francisco at 10 a.m. Archbishop Niederauer has invited all members of the Archdiocese of San Francisco to attend the Mass and to pray for the archdiocese’s newest priests.
Deacon Bjerke, 54, formerly worked in the entertainment television industry. “I finally came to see this is what God was calling me to do,” he said about his call to priesthood in a Catholic San Francisco interview May 21.
Deacon Shunk, 31, a former classroom teacher, grew up in Novato’s St. Anthony of Padua Parish. “I see myself going in the direction of being a parish priest,” he said in a Catholic San Francisco interview May 28.
Both men completed their studies for the priesthood at St. Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park.
