Clergy
Fr. Charles McGuire is currently the resident priest at St. Hugh of Lincoln. The clergy that serve St. Hugh of Lincoln are affiliated with St. Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, OH. Fr. Cekada or Bp. Dolan visit St. Hugh of Lincoln about once a month to celebrate mass.
The Most Rev. Daniel Dolan
– Bishop
The Rev. Anthony Cekada
– Pastor
The Rev. Charles McGuire
– Assistant Pastor
Charles McGuire was born in 1981 in the small town of Chillicothe, Ohio. When he was fifteen years old, he and his family left the New Religion and became Traditional Catholics.
After much time of thinking, he finally left home for Detroit, Michigan in 1999, in order to join Most Holy Trinity Seminary (now located in Brooksville, Florida).
Finally, on November 16, 2005, he was ordained a priest by the Most Reverend Daniel L. Dolan at St. Gertrude the Great Church in West Chester, Ohio (just outside of Cinicinnati).
Since his ordination, he has been involved in helping Bp. Donald Sanborn at Most Holy Trinity Seminary as well as going to say Mass at our chapels in Louisiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Presently, he is stationed here at St. Hugh’s in Milwaukee.
The Most Rev. Daniel L. Dolan
Bishop
Education and Ordination
Daniel Lytle Dolan was born in 1951 in Detroit Michigan. He began his preparation for the priesthood in 1965 at the archdiocesan minor seminary in Detroit. He continued his studies in the Cistercian Order and at the seminary of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) in Ecône, Switzerland, where was ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on June 29, 1976.
As a seminarian at Ecône in autumn 1973, he had already come to the conclusion that the only logical explanation for evil of the the New Mass and the errors of Vatican II was that Paul VI, due to personal heresy, had lost the pontificate. Ever since, he has steadfastly held that position regarding Paul VI and his successors, and never once acknowledged them as popes in the Canon of his Mass.
This explanation for the situation after Vatican II later came to be known popularly as “sedevacantism” (from the Latin term for the interregnum between popes).
Missionary Work in SSPX
In early 1977 Father Dolan returned to the U.S., where he acquired a reputation as an eloquent preacher, and where in a few years, he had founded over 35 traditionalist Mass centers from East coast to West. In early 1983 Archbishop Lefebvre attempted to impose a “liturgical reform” on SSPX’s American priests. Nine American priests, including Fr. Dolan, refused, and were promptly expelled from SSPX. (Four more would later join them.)
Expansion in Cincinnati
Fr. Dolan continued his missionary apostolate unchanged and increased the number of activities at his principal church, St. Gertrude the Great in Cincinnati, Ohio. The parish, which he founded himself in 1978, is one of the largest (600 members) and best-organized in the U.S.
Episcopal Consecration
Bp. Dolan was consecrated a bishop in St. Gertrude the Great Church in Cincinnati on 30 November 1993, the Feast of St. Andrew, Apostle, during the course of Solemn Pontifical Mass. The rite took three hours, and all the solemnities of the Pontificale Romanum were observed.
Current Apostolate
Bishop Dolan continues to serve as Pastor of St. Gertrude the Great Church in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In addition Bishop Dolan conducts a modest national and international apostolate. He confirms in churches in the U.S. operated by former members of SSPX, and has also travelled extensively to conduct episcopal functions for traditionalist churches and organizations in Mexico, France, Belgium and Italy.
The Rev. Anthony Cekada
Pastor
Born in 1951, Anthony Cekada studied at De Sales Preparatory Seminary and St. Francis Seminary College in Milwaukee, graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in Theology in 1973. He also studied organ and composition at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Already discontent with the Vatican II changes, he entered the Cistercians of the Common Observance, a conservative monastic order.
In 1975 he entered St. Pius X Seminary in Ecône, Switzerland, completed his studies, and was ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1977. Following his ordination, Father Cekada taught seminarians at St. Joseph’s House of Studies Armada, Michigan, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
From 1979 to he traveled on weekends to offer the traditional Mass in traditional churches and missions in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
In 1989 Father Cekada moved to Cincinnati, where he now assists with pastoral work. He also offers the traditional Mass in Columbus and Milwaukee on weekends.
He has since devoted a considerable amount of time to research and writing. TAN Books published two of his works criticizing the post-Vatican II liturgical reform. One was a commentary and new translation for The Ottaviani Intervention, a key document in the history of the traditional movement. The other, The Problems with the Prayers of the Modern Mass, discusses the systematic omission of certain doctrines (hell, the soul, miracles, the true Church, etc.) from the Missal of Paul VI.
Father Cekada has also written two introductory booklets for newcomers to the traditional Mass: Welcome to the Traditional Latin Mass and Traditionalists, Infallibility and the Pope. Both are extremely popular and have achieved wide circulation, due to their succinct and scholarly treatment of the issues of the New Mass and the pope. Father Cekada’s writings are available from our bookstore, as well as from articles online.
Once a month during the academic year Father Cekada travels to Florida to teach Canon Law, Liturgy, and Scripture at Most Holy Trinity Seminary.