Fr. Richard Baker was parochial vicar for 4 years at St. Eugene in Yonkers. Born and raised in Rockland County, NY, he attended St. Joseph’s Seminary and was ordained in 1990. Fr. Baker served as Parochial Vicar at St. Philip Neri for the first 5 years of his priesthood. Later on, he took further studies at the Catholic University in Washington where he acquired a Degree in Sacred Music. Fr. Baker then returned to the Seminary and became professor of Liturgy and Sacred Music. He is very, very happy to serve the parish of St. Malachy’s!

Fr. Kelly was born in Tullamore, County Offaly Ireland and is the youngest of seven children. Two of his brothers are Jesuit priests, both working in Africa. He went through the entire course of his Jesuit studies in Ireland and was ordained in Dublin in 1963. He came to the United States in 1965, to study Labor-Manangement Relations in Cornell University. He continued his studies in Loyola University Chicago, where he took his Masters' Degree in 1967, his thesis being, "The Labor Philosophy of Michael J. Quill." He taught in Dublin from 1967-1968. He came to St. Peter's College in the Fall of 1968 and was Director of Campus Ministry for twenty years. In 1989, he was moved from God to Mammon and worked as the Senior Advancement Officer with the vice-president for Advancement.

In 1993, he took up the position of Parochial Vicar at Saint Malachy's the Actors' Chapel.