A native of Michoacán, Mexico, two childhood buddies from the same local parish and five life-long Californians will be among the nine men who where ordained to the priesthood on June 4th for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Archbishop José H. Gomez ordained Jeffrey Baker, Joshua Diener, Luis Espinoza, Paolo Garcia, Anthony Garcias, Gregorio Hidalgo, Matthew Murphy, Ethan Southard and Albert van der Woerd during a morning Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Downtown L.A.