BRIDGEPORT—On, Saturday, June 12, Bishop Frank J. Caggiano will ordain Deacon Guy Dormévil as a priest for the Diocese of Bridgeport. The Ordination Mass will be celebrated at 11 am at St. Augustine Cathedral.
Guy Dormévil was ordained to the transitional diaconate on June 20, 2020.
Guy Dormévil of Norwalk was born in Haiti to Gustave Dormévil and Angélie Louis Charles, where he was raised along with his 15 siblings. He was married for 29 years to the late Magalie Adolphe, who died from cancer on August 23, 2015. He has two children, Guyvensky Marcus Dormévil, 29, of Norwalk, Guylendy Bernadette Dormévil, 26, of Marietta, Ga., and grandson, Marcus Alexander Dormévil, of Norwalk.
In 1988, he had to leave his job as an immigration inspector to take refuge in the U.S. Since his arrival to the U.S., he has worked as a Burger King clerk and manager, a certified nursing assistant, a grocery store produce clerk, and lastly a produce manager for 19 years. He attended college part-time and received a certificate of English as a Second Language and an associate degree in Business Administration. He also obtained additional non-degree credits at UCONN and Sacred Heart University.
On August 3, 2016, Bishop Caggiano approved his application to enter St. John Fisher Seminary Residence, where he began pre-Theology studies. A year later he entered Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary, in Weston, Mass., where he will continue into his fourth year of Theological Studies this Fall.
Guy has been a very active layman in the Roman Catholic Church. His involvement not only included his home parish, but also expanded to both diocesan and national service. He started as a very young altar server, progressed to a youth group leader and then a charismatic prayer group leader. A few of the roles he has exercised at his parish are leader of the liturgical committee, leader of the Haitian Charismatic Prayer Group, eucharistic minister, member of the parish council, a member of the finance board and a parish trustee.
In October 2009, he joyfully and gratefully received the St. Augustine Medal of Service from the Diocese of Bridgeport, while he was serving as a diocesan pastoral council member, with Bishop William E. Lori, presently Archbishop of Baltimore, Maryland. In 2014, at the fourth diocesan synod of the Diocese of Bridgeport, called by Bishop Caggiano, Guy served as delegate of the Haitian Community and St. Joseph Parish. Currently, he is still one of the five members of the Haitian National Charismatic Committee based in New York.
Quincy Réginald Dormévil, Guy’s great-nephew, will present the first reading. Mrs. Romelle Thomas Etienne, Guy’s niece, will present the second reading in French. Guyvensky and Guylendy Dormévil, Guy’s son and daughter, will bring up the gifts. Dignitary priests in attendance will be: Very Rev. Brian Kiely, rector of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary; Msgr. Joseph Malagreca, chaplain of the Haitian National Renouveau Charismatic Group; Msgr. James A. Mongelluzzo, faculty, Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary and Father Vincent Daily, spiritual director, Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary.
Father Dormévil will celebrate his first Mass on Sunday, June 13, 4 pm at St. Joseph Church in Norwalk. Msgr. Joseph Malagreca, pastor of Holy Cross Church in N.Y. and chaplain of the Haitian National Renouveau Charismatic Group will be homilist and concelebrant along with Father Edicson Orozco, pastor of St. Joseph Church,
Father Gerard Frantz Desruisseaux, episcopal vicar of the Haitian Community, Father Jean Ridley Julien, former chaplain of Haitian/American Center, and Very Rev. Brian Kiely, rector of Pope St. John XXIII National Seminary.
“Since childhood, I have been involved in the Church as an altar boy, a youth group
member and leader, a choir member, a prayer group leader and much more…,” says Deacon Dormévil. “Due to my involvement in the Church, many people used to call me Father Guy.”
From a very young age, it was his dream to be a deacon. “I never thought about
being a priest, because I didn’t feel worthy of such a great blessing, even though many
people believed that it was always my calling,” shares Dormévil. “Soon after the death of my wife, many people asked me to consider becoming a priest, including my late wife’s mother, who for the second time had asked me, ‘Why don’t you become a priest?’ It was the same question she had asked me the first time I met her, while I was dating my late wife. I regard all these inquires as signs that the Lord was preparing me.”
When Father John Riviera Gomez, Guy’s pastor, asked him to consider the priesthood, Dormévil was able to answer positively in just a few minutes.
“I have never been happier than during my time spent in seminary formation,” says Dormévil. “Serving people toward their next step to a better life, through their relationship with God, is a great blessing and honor. God has called me, and I pray that His will becomes my will in order to be the best servant, following the example of Jesus Christ who says: ‘the Son of man did not come to be served but to serve’ (cf. Mark 10:45).”
Dormévil explains that his father wanted his first son to become a priest. “He prayed hard on it, but it didn’t happen. Similar to the call that David had, when his father Jesse didn’t think he was the one to be anointed king—my Father never considered me, his youngest son, to be the called one. However, becoming a priest thirty-nine years after my father’s death, I consider my call as the fruit of his continued prayer in heaven. As such, I ask God to incline my heart according to His will, and I am asking the people of God for their continued prayers for me and for more priestly and religious vocations.”
