For more information, please call the Office of Evangelization, Education, and Formation at 610-866-0581.

Click here for the Adult Formation pages.

Click here for the Institute for Catechesis and Formation pages

Maintains and cultivates understanding, respect and cooperation between the diocese and other Christian and non-Christian communities in the diocesan area through education, dialogue and common witness.

Rev. Dr. John A. Krivak

Director

Phone 610-264-0332

Email: [email protected]

The Commission for Women shall serve as an advisory board to the Bishop of Allentown offering the woman’s perspective on issues of concern to our Bishop and the Church.  The Commission for Women is committed to identifying and exploring issues in which consideration of feminine perspectives and insight deepens our collective awareness and understanding of those issues.

For more information, contact Rhady Tulloch, Director of Marriage and Family Life
[email protected]

Office of Campus Ministry

Provides pastoral care for students, faculty, administration and staff of secular and private universities and colleges.

Rev. Richard C. Brensinger,
Director
(610) 683-8467
[email protected]

Click here to visit the Campus Ministry page.

An international Catholic organization of Conferences comprised of laypersons that, in the spirit of charity and justice, seek to help those who are suffering.


Elizabeth Harrison,
President of Diocesan Council
969 Port Carbon St.
Pottsville, PA  17901
Phone/Fax (570) 622-6289
Voicemail (570) 429-2911

Deals with ethical concerns in Catholic Health Care.

Director: Rev. John A. Krivak

Annunciation B.V.M. Rectory

122 Union St.

Catasauqua, PA 18032-1923

Phone: 610-264-0332 Fax: 610-264-5271

1200 Spring St.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
(610) 865-6245   Fax (610) 865-6437
www.cshhcs.org

Holy Family Senior Living
(208 bed skilled nursing home)
1200 Spring St.
Bethlehem, PA 18018
(610) 865-5595   Fax (610) 997-8454
 

The Special Education Programs Department promotes and fosters the Catholic identity of the Special Learning Centers and Aquinas Program; provides administrative support and supervision to the principals of the Special Learning Centers and Aquinas Program; represents the Office of Education on each Special Learning Center Development Advisory Board and participates on boards/committees whose mission is advocacy/service to children and adults with disabilities; prepares and monitors the Aquinas Programs’ budgets, reviews requests for financial aid, bills and receives tuition and maintain

The Secondary Schools Department assists the Superintendent in all matters and programs pertaining to Secondary Schools such as: developing Secondary Education curriculum, sponsoring staff development workshops, and working with the Secondary Management Assistance Team (SMAT). The Secondary Schools Department oversees and directs the Secondary Principals Committee, the Directors of Spiritual Activities Committee, and the Theology Department Chairpersons Committee.

This Personnel Department addresses matters and programs pertaining to the teachers of the Diocese, such as; recommending and interviewing lay teacher applicants for placement, reviewing teacher evaluation reports, conducting new teacher induction programs, and acting as a liaison of the Superintendent with pastors, principals, teachers, and parents in matters pertaining to teachers. The Department also participates in the deliberations of the Teachers Working Conditions Committee and the Ad Hoc Negotiating Committee.