Dec. 24, 2014

Bishop Terry R. LaValley has appointed Father Albert J. Hauser, pastor of the Catholic Community of  Moriah,  dean of Essex Deanery.

He replaces Father Richard S. Sturtz who retired as pastor of Schroon Lake and Ogdensburg and moved to Ogdensburg.

Father Hauser, a Rochester native, was born July 5, 1953.  He graduated from LeMoyne College in Syracuse and studied for the priesthood at Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, NY.

He was ordained to the priesthood May 2, 1981 by Bishop Stanislaus J. Brzana.

Father Hauser has been a parochial vicar at St. Patrick’s in Watertown and Notre Dame in Ogdensburg.  He also served as associate chancellor and bishop’s secretary from 1983 until 1988 when he went to Rome for advances studies in biblical theology.

He was a member of the faculty of Wadhams Hall Seminary College from 1990 to 2002 and vice-president at the time of its closing.

He served as associate pastor and pastor of St. Lawrence Church in Louisville from 1992 through 1995.

From 2002 to 2006, he was pastor of Our Lady of Victory in Plattsburgh and St. Mary’s of the Lake in Cumberland Head. He was also been pastor in Morristown, Hammond and Rossie from 2002 to 2006 and again from 2010 to 2012.

Father Hauser has also served the diocese as director of the Department of Worship.