Rev. Fr. Martin I. Esguerra-Lopez, M.Id
Pastor

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Fr. Martín I. Esguerra-López, M.Id, is a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Idente Missionaries, a religious community of pontifical right. He graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a B.A. in Forensic Psychology and from Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare with a Masters in Social Work that had a concentration in community organizing, public administration and research. He received his theological training through the Idente Missionaries; at the Pontifical Universities of Salamanca and Comillas in Madrid, Spain; and at the St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie, Yonkers. In May 2007, he earned a Doctorate of Ministry summa cum laude from the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington, N.Y.

Fr. Martin was ordained at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in 2008 by the former archbishop of New York, His Eminence Edward Cardinal Egan. He has ministered for over eight years as Director of Religious Education at Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Parish, (Jamaica), and at Santa Maria Parish (Bronx) and immediately after his ordination was appointed for three years as campus ministry chaplain to LaGuardia Community College and York College by His Excellency Nicholas DiMarzio, the Bishop of the Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens.

In May of 2011, he was appointed pastor of Santa Maria Parish in the Bronx where he currently ministers full time.