Clergy & Staff

Rev. Raymond M. Rafferty has been pastor of Corpus Christi Church since 1998. Since his ordination at St. Joseph’s Seminary in 1966, Father Rafferty has served as assistant and pastor in several NYC churches and as director of New York University’s Catholic Center. He has even served as pastor for the English-speaking Church of Our Savior in The Hague, Netherlands.

Along the way, he was the youngest president of the Senate of Priests of the New York Archdiocese and the President of the New City Library. He is deeply involved in community affairs, particularly as an active member of the Board of Directors of Community Impact at Columbia University and of the Morningside Area Alliance, and can often be found at the educational, cultural, and religious institutions of Morningside Heights. Corpus Christi’s Young Adult Group and the Lenten Sunday Vespers program are just two of the additions he has made to the Church’s array of services.

Besides pastoring, he enjoys visits to his beloved Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Frick Collection.

Msgr. Kevin Sullivan has been executive director of Catholic Charities here since 2001, after serving with that organization for more than seventeen years. After the attacks on Sept. 11, he was elected chairperson of the 9/11 United Services Group, established to coordinate help for victims and their families.

Msgr. Sullivan was born in the Bronx and raised in Yonkers. After studying at Cathedral College and St. Joseph's Seminary, he was ordained in 1976. Since then he has completed advanced degrees in public administration at Columbia University and New York University and frequently teaches courses in nonprofit management at Notre Dame.