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June
20, 2005 
VOL.
43, NO. 12Oakland,
CA
Precious Blood priests leave Alameda parish
After nearly 50 years of pastoral leadership at St.
Barnabas Parish in Alameda, the Society of the Precious Blood formally
returned the parish’s administration to the Oakland Diocese last
month.
During a transition ceremony at the parish, Bishop Allen Vigneron thanked
the religious community for its decades of devoted service.
The arrival of the Precious Blood Fathers at St. Barnabas in the summer
of 1955 marked an era of steady growth that included the construction
of the parish school and hall in the late 1950s and early 1960s and the
introduction of spiritual practices such as the October Rosary devotion.
The priests continue to staff St. Edward Parish in Newark where Father
Jeffrey Keyes, former pastor at St. Barnabas, is now pastor.
The diocese actually assumed responsibility for the parish last fall and
appointed Father Anthony Herrera as administrator.
