Walsh University Appoints Dominican Chaplain
May 11th, 2008 by Fr. Pius, OP
From the May 10, 2008 edition of The Canton Repository, a newspaper in Canton, OH, reporting a story on the appointment of Fr. Chris Saliga, O.P., a Dominican of St. Joseph’s Province, as the new full-time chaplain of Walsh University.
Walsh University was founded as a Catholic college by the Brothers of Christian Instruction in Canton, OH in 1960. Fr. Saliga is assigned to St. Dominic’s Priory in Youngstown, OH.
Walsh appoints new chaplain
Saturday, May 10, 2008 NORTH CANTON — The Rev. Christopher M. Saliga has been appointed chaplain at Walsh University, effective July 1.He will be its first full-time chaplain, responsible for sacramental and liturgical life.Saliga had been serving health-care and campus ministries. He was a chaplain and ethicist with the Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York, St. Catherine of Siena Church and Priory. He also served in collaboration with Hospital for Special Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and New York, Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center. Within campus ministry, he worked part-time at Columbia and Quinnipiac universities. From 1984 to 1988, Saliga was an Army combat medic and paratrooper. He earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing at Franciscan University of Steubenville, after which he accepted a commission as a Navy Nurse Corps officer. From 1992 to 1996, Saliga served at Naval Medical Center in Oakland, Calif., and briefly aboard the USS New Orleans and the USS Carl Vinson. As an officer in the Reserves, Saliga taught clinical nursing at Franciscan. In 1998, he entered the Dominican order’s Province of St. Joseph and was ordained a priest in 2005. He has served at St. Catherine of Siena Church and Priory since his ordination. © 2008 The Repository
