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Our Priests & Deacon:

Rev. Ronald D. Coyne, Pastor
Father Coyne grew up in Roslindale/West Roxbury and graduated from Catholic Memorial High School. He was ordained a priest in 1973 and has served in the following parishes: St. Angela, Mattapan; St. Margaret, Dorchester; Sacred Heart, Roslindale; St. Catherine, Charlestown; St. Brendan, Dorchester and St. Albert, Weymouth. He also has served on the Emergency Response Team for the Archdiocese.

St. Mary Parish in Randolph welcomed him as their newest Pastor on June 18, 2007. He is a firm believer in God's unconditional love and the Church's unlimited potential.

Rev. Vincent R. Maffei, Parochial Vicar
Father Maffei was born and raised in East Boston, MA. After graduating from Boston Latin School in 1956, he entered the seminary college in Jamaica Plain. He completed his theological education at St. John Seminary, Brighton, and was ordained a priest for service in the Archdiocese of Boston in 1964. He also obtained a Master of Divinity Degree from St. John Seminary in 1975.

Father Maffei’s first parish assignment was to St. Mary Parish in North Plymouth. He then served at parishes in Brockton, Wellesley, Norwood and Lowell. In 1975 he was assigned as Secretary to Bishop Joseph Ruocco, regional bishop of the Lowell Region of the Archdiocese. He held this assignment until the bishop’s death in 1980. From 1983 until 1992, Father Maffei served as an Ecclesiastical Judge at the Archdiocesan Marriage Tribunal. In 1992, he was appointed pastor of St. Martha Parish in Plainville, MA, where he remained until 1998. At that time, Father Maffei became a Parochial Vicar here at St. Mary Parish in Randolph.

During his 43 years of priesthood Father Maffei has done considerable teaching - including subjects in the Religious Education Office’s program for adult education, the Permanent Deacons’ training program, and religion classes for high school girls. He has also given many lectures on the Church’s annulment process and Tribunal procedure. In his spare time, Father Maffei is an avid reader and an amateur watercolor artist.

Rev. Garrett J. Barry, Parochial Vicar
One of six siblings, Father Barry was born and raised in Norwood, MA. After attending St. Catherine School in Norwood and Cathedral High School in Boston, he went through the Seminary College and School of Theology and was ordained a priest in 1966. He came to St. Mary’s in Randolph in 2004, after previous assignments at Holy Name in West Roxbury and St. Ann’s in Quincy.

Deacon James Eames
Deacon Eames was born in Whitman, raised in Hyde Park and Mattapan, and graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1949. He served in the Air Force in the Korean War, spending two and a half years in Japan. In 1956 he met and in 1958 married, Rosemarie Gauss. They have two children, Lauren and Jimmy, and three grandchildren.

In 1981 Deacon Eames was accepted into the Permanent Diaconate Program and was ordained by Cardinal Law in May, 1986. The first four years after ordination he divided ministering to the homeless on the South Shore and ministering Sacramentally to the people of St. Mary Parish. He has been assigned to, and serves in St. Mary Parish.