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Rev. Robert Abbatiello, O.F.M. Cap. '78
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Presidentrabbatiellosacredhearths.orgFather Robert Abbatiello is a native of Yonkers, NY, a graduate of both Sacred Heart Grade School and Sacred Heart High School ('78) and attended Manhattan College ('82). He received a Master of Divinity degree from Maryknoll School of Theology in 1990, and a Master of Science in Religious Education from Fordham University in 1998.
Father Bob entered the Capuchin Friars, Province of St. Mary, in August 1982. He joined the parish team at St. Michael’s in East New York, Brooklyn and, after his ordination in 1990, continued to serve there until 1993. He served the community as vocation minister, guardian and director of Capuchin Youth and Family Ministries in Garrison, N.Y. from 1993 to 2002. In 2002, he was appointed pastor of St. Pius X in Middletown, CT. Good Shepherd Parish in Inwood, NY welcomed him as pastor in 2008. He remained there until 2017 when he was elected Vicar Provincial for the Province of St. Mary. At that time he returned to Yonkers and served as a member of the Sacred Heart High School Board of Advisors. On May 20, 2019, Father Bob was appointed Pastor of Sacred Heart Church and President of Sacred Heart High School.
In May 2023, Fr. Bob was elected Provincial Minister of the Capuchin Friars in the Province of St. Mary, which comprises New York and New England. He also serves as the Catholic Chaplain for the Yonkers Police Department. Having grown up in Yonkers, Fr. Bob enjoys being back "home at the the Heart" and is deeply committed to the mission of Catholic Education.
