Welcome

Welcome to the Diocese of Youngstown Vocation Website. We would like to challenge you to make a difference in today's world. Jesus asks you to take your baptismal call as a committed Christian more seriously by serving Jesus and the Church in an even more generous and wholehearted way.

We invite you to consider the possiblity that the Lord might be calling you to serve him and his Church either as a diocesan priest or permanent deacon, or as a religious priest, brother, or sister.

Jesus asked them, "What are you looking for?" They said to him, "Rabbi, where do you stay?" "Come and see," he answered. Jn.1: 39.

Won't you come and see and consider a vocation to the priesthood or to the religious life?
Monsignor John Zuraw, Father Leo Wehrlin, Sister Joyce Candidi, OSHJ