Immediate Past President
Dr. Javier Orozco is the current president of CADEIO and serves as the Executive Director of Human Dignity and Intercultural Affairs in the Archdiocese of St. Louis and is the Ecumenical and Interreligious Officer. He is an executive director with over twenty years of professional experience in religious, educational and community affairs. Skilled in Catholic theology and ministry, ecumenical and Interreligious leadership, intercultural competence, public speaking, teaching, writing and research. His broader ministry includes serving in different diocesan, regional and national committees, and organizations. He is a past president of the National Catholic Association of Diocesan Directors for Hispanic Ministry (NCADDHM) and serves as vice-chair for the Cabinet of the Interfaith Partnership of Greater St. Louis. Javier is the founder and principal consultant of Convivencia Church Project, an expression of pastoral ministry and public theology (https://www.convivenciachurchproject.org/ ). His recent consultations include serving as a lead theological consultant for the Preaching Academy of Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis. (https://www.ai.edu/continuing-education/preaching-academy) and serving as adjunct professor for the Institute of Pastoral Studies (IPS). His academic formation includes a BA and MA (Philosophy), STB (Sacred Theology), and PhD (Theology). Javier and his wife, Theresa, live in the City of St. Louis.
Fr. Phil Latronico was ordained in April of 1986 and has served as Chaplain of the Community of God’s Love, a Covenanted Eucharistic Public Association of Christ Faithful of the Archdiocese of Newark since ordination. He is the Youth Minister and Weekend Assistant at St. John the Apostle, Linden since 2000. He was co-chair of the State Catholic Charismatic Conference 2006-16. He serves as Chaplain to the Peace Care Center at St. Joseph’s formally the Cusack Care Center in Jersey City. He has participated in varied types of service in Hudson County: Catholic School Teacher, Director of Religious Education, Youth Minister, and Ecumenical Liaison. Since his ordination he has served on the Archdiocesan Commissions of Christian Unity and Interreligious Affairs. Currently he is the chair of the Archdiocesan Commission of Interreligious Affairs for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, the Executive Secretary of the Archdiocesan Commission for Christian Unity, the President of the North Jersey Christian Muslim Project, the Secretary of the Faiths in the World Committee of the Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers (CADEIO), an advisor and friend to Peace Islands (a Muslim Outreach among the Turkish Population), a member of the Hudson County Sister/Brotherhood Association, and a member of the Bergen County Sister/Brotherhood Association. He also is the secretary of CADEIO as of April, 2016. Fr. Donald Rooney is the Immediate Past President of CADEIO and has served in the role for 12 years. FatherDon Rooney is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, and pastor of Saint Bernadette Church in Springfield, Virginia, a parish family of about 13,000. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he received his M.Div./M.A. in Systematic Theology from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia following a number of years as creative director and owner of an advertising design firm in Dallas. He was ordained in 1994. For 22 years he has served as the Director of the diocesan Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, as well as a number of related organizations: formerly, four terms as President of CADEIO (the national Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers) working with the USCCB; treasurer of the Virginia State LARCUM Committee (Lutherans, Anglicans, Roman Catholics and United Methodists); a board member of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan DC, and steering committee member for Christian Churches Together. He has served as an active participant in the national dialogues of the USCCB with United Methodists and Hindus, and has twice participated in the international Vatican dialogue with Buddhists. He also serves on a number of boards whose work is ecumenical and philanthropic in nature, including Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington and as a founding member of the Holy Land Christians Society whose goal is to promote Christian culture, education and peace in Israel/Palestine.
Mr. Rick Caporali has served as Treasurer of CADEIO for eight years.
Fr. Don Rooney is a priest of the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, and pastor of Saint Bernadette Church in Springfield, Virginia, a parish family of about 13,000. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he received his M.Div./M.A. in Systematic Theology from Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia following a number of years as creative director and owner of an advertising design firm in Dallas. He was ordained in 1994. For 22 years he has served as the Director of the diocesan Office for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, as well as a number of related organizations: formerly, four terms as President of CADEIO (the national Catholic Association of Diocesan Ecumenical and Interreligious Officers) working with the USCCB; treasurer of the Virginia State LARCUM Committee (Lutherans, Anglicans, Roman Catholics and United Methodists); a board member of the Interfaith Council of Metropolitan DC, and steering committee member for Christian Churches Together. He has served as an active participant in the national dialogues of the USCCB with United Methodists and Hindus, and has twice participated in the international Vatican dialogue with Buddhists. He also serves on a number of boards whose work is ecumenical and philanthropic in nature, including Catholic Charities Diocese of Arlington and as a founding member of the Holy Land Christians Society whose goal is to promote Christian culture, education and peace in Israel/Palestine.