CUFFH Pastoral Advisor

Very Rev. Jeremias E. Castillo

Very Rev. Jeremias E Castillo is the Pastor at Transfiguration R.C. Church in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, a member church of Churches United For Fair Housing. His journey toward ministry as a full-fledged priest of the Diocese of Brooklyn has included: being raised in the Dominican Republic, studying for the priesthood in Colombia, returning home to be ordained in 2008 for the Diocese of San Juan de la Maguana, starting ministry (and studying English) as a visiting priest in the Diocese of Brooklyn in 2011, and traveling to Rome in 2015 to study canon law before taking his post in Williamsburg a few years later.