September 4, 2024 Last week, Bishop Terry R. LaValley approved the retirement of Father Clyde A. Lewis, pastor of St. Mary’s Church in Champlain and St. Patrick’s Church in Rouses Point, and the appointment of Father Nicolas J. Revilla, previously parochial vicar at the churches, as administrator. The change was made effective immediately. Father Lewis, 85, has served as pastor in Rouses Point since 2002 and in Champlain since 2013. Born in Boston and raised in Plattsburgh, Father Lewis studied for the priesthood at Wadhams Hall in Ogdensburg, at Christ the King Seminary in Olean and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained Dec. 16, 1964, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He became pastor of St. Augustine’s in Peru in 1979 and then Holy Family in Watertown from 1993 to 2002. The priest also served the diocese as associate director of the youth department from 1966 to 1970 and associate director of religious education and regional director for St. Lawrence Deanery from 1969 to 1972. From 1972 to 1979, Father Lewis served as diocesan director of religious education. He also served as president of the New York State Council of Diocesan Directors of Religious Education and as a member of the board of directors of the National Conference of Diocesan Directors. In addition, the priest has served the diocese as a pro-Synodal Judge of the Marriage Tribunal, as a member of the Priests’ Personnel Board and as chair of the Art and Architecture Committee of the diocesan Department of Worship. Born in Naga City, Philippines, Father Revilla, 51, attended high school at Holy Rosary Minor Seminary in Naga City. He later attended University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Philosophy and Faculty of Sacred Theology in Manila, Philippines. He also studied at Pontifical University of St. Thomas in Rome. He was ordained in 1999 at Basilica Minore in Naga City by Archbishop Leonardo Z. Legaspi. While he served in a parish as a parochial vicar and at various times as a guest priest, the majority of Father Revilla’s priesthood has been spent as a professor, formator or dean at seminaries in Rome and in the Philippines, where he taught metaphysics, criteriology, history of philosophy, philosophy of religion, rational psychology, cosmology, Spanish, Latin and other subjects. Father Revilla arrived in the United States from the Archdiocese of Caceres in the Philippines in January of 2023. |
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