Our pastor, Father Chester H. Carina, was born in New Brunswick, NJ in 1957, and raised in St. Joseph’s Parish, Bound Brook, NJ. He completed his seminary studies with the Benedictines at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in Spencer County, Indiana and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Metuchen in 1985.
Father Carina has served as a parochial vicar as well as a temporary administrator in over a half-dozen parishes throughout the diocese. He was pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Bernardsville, NJ before coming to Most Holy Redeemer in 2003.
Father has also served the diocese in the Vocations Office and the Marriage Tribunal.