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Council Member Brooks-Powers introduces Father Daniel Kingsley for invocation
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Council Member Selvena N. Brooks-Powers introduces Father Daniel Kingsley of Saint Claire Roman Catholic Church in Rosedale, Queens, who will deliver the invocation. She provides background information on Father Kingsley's career, accomplishments, and community involvement.
- Father Kingsley is the first black priest to be installed as pastor in his church's 100-year history
- He is involved in various community roles, including being a clergy liaison for the police precinct
- Father Kingsley is celebrating his tenth anniversary of priestly ordination in June
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
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Thank you.
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I am so proud to introduce today father Daniel Kingsley of Saint Claire Roman Catholic Church in Rosedale, Queens.
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Father Kingsley is a lifelong New Yorker of Haitian and Nigerian ancestry.
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He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in June of twenty fifteen, and for five years, he served as a parochial vicar in Bedford Stuyvesant Saint Martin De Porres Parish.
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Before his 2020 appointment as administrator of Rosedale's Saint Clair Church.
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In 2022, father Kingsley was formally installed as the thirteenth pastor becoming the first black priest to hold the office in the church's 100 year old history.
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In addition to his duties as a parish priest, father Kinsley is the associate chaplain of the Rosedale Civic Association, a clergy liaison for the new 100 And Sixteenth Police Precinct, a member of the Rosedale Ecumenical Churches, and sits on the Ecumenical and Interfaith Commission of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.
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This June, father Kinsley will celebrate his tenth anniversary of priestly ordination.
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Father Kinsley is accompanied today by his lovely mother, Daniella Pierre, and Evidelia Boyd, president, immediate past president of the Rosedale Civic Association.
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I make a motion to spread today's invocation on the record.