Riverdale Catholic
The Parish of
St. Margaret of Cortona - St. Gabriel
Pastor
Fr. Seán Connolly is from the Lower Hudson River Valley of New York. He is the fifth generation of the Connolly family from the Town of Ossining.
He’s a graduate of Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, the College of the Holy Cross where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in the Classics, and Saint Joseph’s Seminary in Yonkers where he was trained for ministry and earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology, Master of Divinity, and a Master of Arts. He is currently a doctoral student at St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood.
In his spare time amidst parochial duties, Fr. Seán leads pilgrimages to different shrines across the world. He enjoys conducting thorough research on the sacred places he visits and writing about them for different publications.
Read some of his articles here: Fr. Seán Connolly - Catholic World Report
Fr. Seán Connolly before the major relic of our parish patron, St. Margaret, at the basilica dedicated to her memory in Cortona, Italy in 2025.
Fr. Seán Connolly meeting His Holiness, Pope Leo XIV, at the Vatican in 2025.
Fr. Seán Connolly's first Holy Mass at his home parish of St. Augustine's in Ossining in 2015.
Fr. Seán Connolly meeting His Holiness, Pope Francis, at the Vatican in 2021.