Advisory Bodies

Core Team

  • Archbishop Thomas Zinkula, Archbishop

  • Monsignor Thomas Toale, Vicar General

  • Fr. Dennis Quint, Pastor

  • Kim Hermsen, Co-Director of Pastoral Planning & Leadership Development

  • Deacon Keith McCarraher, Co-Director of Pastoral Planning & Leadership Development

  • Cathy Walz, Chief of Staff and Superintendent of Schools

Planning Commission

  • Fr. Brian Dellaert, Pastor & Judical Vicar, St. Joseph the Worker, Dubuque

  • Fr. Kyle Digmann, Pastor & PAB, St. Thomas Aquinas, Ames

  • Fr. Neil Manternach, Pastor & PAB, St. Joseph, Marion

  • Fr. Tom McDermott, Pastor, St. Edward, Waterloo

  • Fr. Mark Osterhaus, Retired Pastor

  • Fr. Nick Radloff, Pastor & Priest Council, Christ Our Hope Cluster, Protivin

  • Fr. Tyler Raymond, Pastor & Priest Council, St. LaSalle Pastorate, Holy Cross

  • Deacon Jim Kurtenbach, Story/Marshall Cluster, Colo

  • Deacon Scott Zogg, St. Pius, Cedar Rapids & St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Hiawatha

  • Yvette Andersen, Faith Formation Leader, St Joseph, Bellevue

  • Kate Banwarth, Parishioner, Church of the Resurrection, Dubuque

  • Amy Dall, Parishioner, St. Gabriel, Reinbeck

  • Wayne Frost, Parishioner, St. Mary of Mt. Carmel, Eagle Center

  • Carli Herzog, Parishioner, Epiphany, Mason City

  • Sr. Annette Kestel, Religious Sister, Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary

  • Lindsay Leahy, Parishioner, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Hiawatha

  • Paul Lee, Center Director/Campus Minister, St. Stephen the Witness Student Center

  • Mary Lee Roth, Parishioner, Holy Spirit, Dubuque,

  • Zoraida Vega, Hispanic Minister, Immaculate Conception, Cedar Rapids

  • Melanie Vobr, Faith Formation Leader, Notre Dame, Cresco