St. Anne's Shepherds
Father Collin Kay
Fr. Collin Kay was ordained in 2005 and assigned to St. Anne's as a Parochial Vicar in July of that year. He was born and raised in Newark, NJ and attended Seton Hall Prep and Columbia University. He was a deacon at St. Bartholomew's in Scotch Plains for 2 years. For seven years prior to that, he was a member of the Carthusian Order, at a monastery in Vermont. Before entering the order, he studied for three years at Immaculate Conception Seminary at Seton Hall. He also served for four years in the Army. He comes to St. Anne's with a varied background in pastoral and organizational
Father Joseph Doyle
Fr. Joseph Doyle was named pastor of St. Anne's in August of 2005. Before that, he was pastor of St. Francis, Ridgefield Park, for 14 years. He was ordained in 1972 and for the next four years served in parishes in Jersey City and Edgewater. He then was assigned to Seton Hall University, where, over the next 14 years, he taught in the Sociology Department and acted as the Spiritual Director of the St. Andrew's College Seminary. He then became a Priest Secretary to Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, before being assigned to parish work again in 1990.
