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Archdiocesan Catholic Center
Los Angeles, CA 90010
213 637 7000
The following is a list of departments, offices and ministries
of the Archdiocesan Catholic Center (Chancery Office). Where available,
links are provided to additional information and contact information
on this site.
Last updated Thursday, 12 January 2006
Office of the Archbishop
Serves as the liaison between the parishes and the Cardinal Archbishop. The office is comprised of the Cardinal’s secretarial and support staff. Priest Secretary/Master of Ceremonies: Rev. Marc Trudeau. Executive Coordinator: Eileen Bonaduce. Learn More.
Leadership Team
Moderator of the Curia / Vicar General: Assists the Archbishop in the administration of the Archdiocese; serves as the delegate and executive officer of the Archbishop for the coordination of the Archdiocesan Catholic Center, fostering the continuing pastoral nature of the services provided there. Rev. Msgr. Royale Vadakin.
Chancellor: Assists the Moderator of the Curia in his administration of the Archdiocesan Catholic Center and Leadership Team. Sr. Mary Elizabeth Galt, B.V.M.
Vice Chancellor: Assists the Chancellor in her administration of the Archdiocesan Catholic Center and Leadership Team. Rev. Joseph Hernandez.
Chief Financial Officer: Recommends, communicates, and oversees Archdiocesan financial policies and procedures with Archdiocesan entities as well as some of the administrative areas of the Archdiocesan Catholic Center. Assists parishes in their operations by placing at their disposal support and resources. Randolph Steiner.
Departments (Alphabetical)
AIDS/HIV Ministry: Provides liturgical, educational and networking resources and referrals. Offers pastoral care, visits, speakers, resource manuals, and training, bringing a Catholic voice to the experience of HIV/AIDS. Learn More.
Applied Technology: Is responsible for the computer networks and servers of the ACC, including Internet and email.
Archival Center: Serves as a repository for documents, books and related materials pertaining to the history of the Archdiocese and its predecessor jurisdictions since 1840; collects, preserves, interprets , and provides access to these materials and provides a variety of outreach programs involving the editing and publication of materials for the benefit of the historical and ministerial community. Lern More.
Assistance Ministry: Cares for the well-being of the individual who has presented a formal allegation of sexual misconduct against a priest, deacon, or church worker of the archdiocese. Learn More.
Brothers' Council: Addresses issues relevant to Brother serving in the Archdiocese.
Cardinal McIntyre Fund for Charity: Serves the “neediest of the needy” individuals and families in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles by working directly with pastors in providing reimbursements to parishes for the provisions of food, shelter, one-time assistance to families in crisis, funeral expenses, etc. Learn More.
Cardinal's Theologian: Assists the cardinal in theological matters.
Catholic Charities: Acts as the social service arm of the Archdiocese by working with the community and parishes supplying human services to: individuals and families in crisis; persons in poverty; homeless adults and children; elderly; children and youth at risk; special adult population, and refugees and immigrants. Learn More.
Catholic Campaign for Human Development: The domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic community. Its mission is to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through transformative education. Learn More.
Catholic Cemeteries: Acts as an extension of the parish in carrying out the sacred ministry of Christian burial by providing comprehensive cemetery, mortuary, and bereavement services to the Catholic community. Learn More.
Catholic Education Foundation: Raises funds and grants need-based scholarships to students to attend elementary schools and high schools in the Archdiocese. They work to support excellence in Catholic schools and make education as affordable as possible by seeking creative ways to ensure that the poor and disadvantaged are served by our schools. Learn More.
Catholic Relief Services: Works in solidarity with the poor in more than 90 countries and territories. CRS acts with local communities and partners to respond to natural and humanitarian disasters and to address the root causes of poverty through long-term sustainable development projects. Learn More.
Clergy: See Vicar for Clergy
Clergy Misconduct Oversight Board: Oversees and addresses issues of clergy misconduct, especially with respect to sexual abuse of minors. Learn More.
Construction: Acts as a service to parishes and schools to ensure that a construction project is expedited in the best interests of the parish/school/location and the Archdiocese. Learn More (Intranet: password required).
Deacons: The Director of Deacons is part of the Office of the Vicar for Clergy. Learn More.
Development: Coordinates all fundraising and support programs of the Archdiocese, including the Annual Appeal of the Archdiocese, "Together in Mission," Capital Campaign Programs, Offertory Increase Programs for the parishes, Car Donation Program, and works to obtain Corporation and Foundation support. The department provides guidance, support, and assistance for laity and clergy to generate new financial resources to strengthen parishes and the Archdiocese. Learn More.
Diaconate Formation: Provides information, a selection process, and a Diaconate formation program for those discerning a vocation to the Permanent Diaconate Ministry; provides assistance to the Vicar for Clergy and pastors in the final assignment of the deacons to parishes. Learn More.
Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs: serves the Archdiocese as a resource to the Archbishop and the various offices of the Archdiocese in all matters of ecumenical and interreligious issues. The Director is a representative to the various Christian, Jewish and other non-Christian communities in the greater Los Angeles area as well as a developer and coordinator of bilateral and multilateral official dialogue in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Learn More.
Education (Department of Catholic Schools): Serves, directs, and empowers parish and school communities to implement the Vision for Catholic Schools. The Vision sets the mission of all Catholic schools to be in partnership with parents. The schools prepare students to become full and active members of the Catholic Church, to serve others, and to make a difference in the world. The Vision challenges all schools to be for their neighborhood and the world an Advantage for Life. Learn More.
Ethnic Ministry: Works in collaboration with Archdiocesan pastoral ministries and agencies in ministering to ethnic Catholic communities to provide resources and services to empower ethnic leaders to build up faith communities in the Church. Learn More.
Family Life: Conducts Marriage Preparation classes (including Engaged Encounter weekends). Coordinates the annual World Marriage Day anniversary masses. Supports family ministry at the parish level by designing and providing materials, leadership training, family ministry programs, and a wide variety of customized ministry services both in English and Spanish, thus providing priests, deacons, staff and volunteers with assistance in serving the needs of the families in their parish communities and fulfilling the Church’s vision for families. Learn More.
Financial Services: Accounting: Gives support and direction regarding financial matters; acts as co-partners with parish staffs to improve Archdiocesan financial stability and to ensure financial stewardship.
Financial Services: Internal Audit: Assists pastors and principals in the exercise of their stewardship by helping them to understand their financial position better and to improve their financial operations and controls; assists bookkeepers with recordkeeping problems, payroll tax problems and inquiries, clarification of policies and procedures, and other financial concerns.
Financial Services: Investments: Provides stewardship of the Church resources in the operation and management of the Archdiocesan Investment Pools and Loan Programs; processes deposits for pooled investments and withdrawals to meet the needs of Investment Pool participants. Learn More (Intranet: password required).
Financial Services: Payroll: Maintains payroll records for Archdiocesan Catholic Center, cemeteries, Tidings, priests, and religious employees.
Financial Services: Pension: Assists in the provision of future retirement benefits to all employees of parishes, schools, and Archdiocesan Catholic Center departments.
Health Affairs: Acts as liaison between Catholic Health Services and the Archdiocese of Los Angeles; available for consultation with parishes regarding health issues and pastoral care of the sick and elderly in health facilities.
House of Prayer (Cardinal Timothy Manning House of Prayer for Priests): Cares for and serves the priests who come to the House of Prayer for retreats of various lengths, days of recollection, prayer support groups, spiritual direction, the Sacrament of Reconciliation, and to spend time in prayer and reflection. Learn More.
Human Resources: Advises Archdiocesan personnel regarding all personnel policies. Recruits and hires ACC employees and maintains personnel records. Learn More (Intranet: password required).
Information Services: Matches information technologies to needs of archdiocesan ministries. Helps parishes, schools, regional offices, and the ACC strategize, obtain, and maintain their IT. Offers direct support to ACC departments.
Instructional Television: Extends the education program in Catholic schools by providing continuing support of their instructional technology activities; assists in planning for the extended use of technology in the curriculum; and provides a wide variety of services related to the use of media in support of the goals of the Archdiocese.
Insurance: Administers employee benefit programs. Administers all health and property insurance, including risk management and safety programs.
Justice and Peace: Provides educational programs and resources on Catholic social teaching and on the application of that teaching and tradition to current social issues; provides training and resources that will assist parishioners and parish groups to advocate effectively on social issues and promote active citizenship within their parish communities. Coordinates the archdiocese's response to legislative issues. Administers the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and Catholic Relief Services programs within the Archdiocese. Learn More.
Legal Counsel: Serves the parishes and institutions by answering legal questions, including questions regarding contracts with vendors. On a broader level, this department oversees all legal affairs involving the parishes.
Media Relations: Acts as the official spokesperson for the Archdiocese; assists parishes with all media relations and emergency situations; provides support with community relations ; serves as an overall resource center. Learn More.
Mission Office: Serves as a focal point for mission activities in the parishes and collects funds for mission sites in developing nations. Learn More.
Mission Office: Holy Childhood Association: Educates children in the Archdiocese about the lives of children in developing countries and encourages their participation in programs that raise funds for young people in need. Learn More.
Operations: Acts as the Office of the Building. Operates the Archdiocesan Catholic Center building with responsibility for managing the phone systems; staffing the switchboard; arranging for visitor parking facilities; providing security; overseeing and reserving use of meeting rooms and chapel; allocating storage; providing custodial service; and providing building engineering. Staff members also provide assistance and direction in finding baptismal certificates or other sacramental certificates. Learn More (Intranet: password required). Learn about how to obtain a baptismal certificate.
Parish Life: Develops a framework to call forth and prepare laymen, laywomen, and deacons to serve at Parish Life Directors, Pastoral Associates, and Parish Business Managers. Involved in discernment, screening, and processes leading to the certification and placement of candidates. Ensures that these lay ecclesial ministers and deacons have the spiritual formation, academic education, necessary skills, and experience to meet the demands of their ministries. Also works with Parish Pastoral Council members. Learn More.
Purchasing/Mail Center: Is responsible for distribution of General Mailing (weekly on-line postings) as well as Supplemental mailings (hard copy mailings) sent on scheduled dates throughout the year via U.S. Mail to 1,360 priests of the Archdiocese. Assists employees in printing materials and other duplication needs. Works with standard delivery systems such as U.S. Mail, United Parcel Service, and Inter-Office mail. Responsible for purchasing and maintaining supplies and equipment.
Real Estate: Advises and assists the parishes in real estate matters, including buying and selling, leasing (either as landowner or as tenant), paying property taxes and filing for exemptions, obtaining needed approvals, etc.; maintains all real estate records and files. Oversees all real property for the Archdiocese.
Religious Education: Develops, promotes, advocates for, and implements a shared vision, guidelines and models for Catechetical Ministry throughout the Archdiocese; convenes and provides (English and Spanish) leadership training and formation, in-services, networking, and support for all involved in the ministry of religious education, youth and young adult ministry, adult education; and integrates a justice perspective and a sensitivity to the multicultural diversity of the Archdiocese in all programs and plans. It also sponsors the annual Religious Education Congress. Learn more about the Office of Religious Education. Learn more about the Religious Education Congress.
Restorative Justice/Detention Ministry: Ministers as chaplains, volunteers, advocates to the incarcerated and to facility staff, and in other ways to victims, their families and friends, and to the families and friends of offenders; works with parishes to provide a supportive community for persons reentering the parish from a detention facility. Learn More.
Safeguard the Children: Coordinates parish committees set up to address the parishes' and parishioners' needs with respect to creating parish and school environments that are safe for children. Learn More.
Schools: See Education.
Sisters' Council: Working with the Vicar for Women Religious, addresses issues relevant to Sisters serving in the Archdiocese.
Special Services: Serves the Cardinal in a liaison role with the parishes in the areas of special projects and events such as Awards and Recognition Dinners, the proceeds of which are directed to poor parishes, schools, and institutions. Responds to requests for recommendations of people to be solicited for financial needs. Learn More.
Synod Implementation: Directs the implementation of the synod's recommendations (pastoral priorities and strategies). The synod process sought input from members of the archdiocese on the future of the church in Los Angeles and with the promulgation of its recommendations in the Fall of 2003 now implements them. Learn More.
The Tidings / Vida Nueva: These two newspapers (two separate papers, with Tidings in English and Vida Nueva in Spanish) serve as the primary communications resources for our Archdiocese, providing information and news on parish and community celebrations, religious education, and official Church teachings. Go to The Tidings Web site.
Tribunal: Through its office in Los Angeles, as well as a northern branch in Oxnard, enables people to vindicate their rights in the Church, most significantly their rights to clarify matrimonial status; serves the parishes by enabling pastoral ministers to reconcile people to the Church, receive people into the church, and establish freedom to marry. Tribunal staff members also serve as consultants in matters of canon law to parish ministers. Learn More.
Trust and Estates: Assists those who wish to use trust and estate planning to donate assets to archdiocesan institutions. Learn more.
Vicar for Canonical Services: Acts as first advisor in all affairs of canon law except in those matters pertaining to the Marriage Tribunal. This office also handles all dispensations that might be necessary prior to marriage. Learn More.
Vicar for Clergy: Promotes the both the spiritual and physical well-being of clergy and provides for the continuing formation of priests and deacons providing pastoral leadership in the parishes of the Archdiocese. Administers ecclesiastical assignments for priests and deacons in the Archdiocese.
Vicar for Women Religious: Represents and assists the Sisters working and living in the Archdiocese in all matters directly related to the local church, including apostolate, housing, and other religious life and ministry issues.
Vocations: Coordinates Archdiocesan efforts to recruit and assess candidates who may well serve our parishes in the future as priests and religious; provides resources for the promotion and discernment of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Learn More.
Worship: Represents the voice of the Cardinal - the head liturgist - in the liturgical life of the Archdiocese; fosters, nurtures, and enhances liturgical celebration within the Archdiocese through education and formation of all ministers, inclusive of clerical and lay; acts as a consultative office for Church liturgical renovation; prepares and celebrates stational liturgies. Learn More.
