Clergy

Rev. Gregory Ng Kimm, Pastor

If the name seems familiar, that’s because Fr. Greg served at St. Joseph’s as deacon from 1986-87 and as parochial vicar (associate pastor) from 1989-1995. He returned as pastor of St. Joseph of Cupertino in July 2005. A native of Bakersfield, California, and the descendant of pioneer Chinese immigrants, he received a degree in English from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and studied for the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA. In 1987 he became the fifth priest ordained for the Diocese of San José. As the first Chinese American pastor of St. Joseph of Cupertino, he is committed to recognizing and affirming the diversity of the Church.

Msgr. Joseph Milani, Pastor Emeritus

Monsignor Milani was born in San Rafael, California, lived in Kentfield, and attended grade school in San Anselmo. He attended St. Joseph College Seminary, Los Altos, and St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park. Monsignor was ordained on June 16, 1950. He was associate pastor at five Bay Area parishes before serving as pastor of St. Catherine Church in Morgan Hill. As the first chancellor of the Diocese of San José (1981-1985), he was instrumental in guiding the formative years of the Diocese. He was named pastor of St Joseph of Cupertino in 1985. His outstanding work in the Diocese was recognized by Bishop McGrath in 2000, when he was elevated to the rank of Monsignor. [Top]

Rev. Peter Seimas, Parochial Vicar & Kaiser Chaplain

Rev. Peter Seimas was born in Campbell, California. He received his undergraduate in Business Administration Management from San José State University, SJSU. He attended St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park and was ordained on May 18th 2002. Fr. Peter was an associate pastor at St. Mary Parish, Gilroy, and Resurrection Parish, Sunnyvale. In addition to parish ministry and hospital chaplaincy work, he is a full-time, graduate student at University of San Francisco, USF, in the Marriage and Family Therapy / Counseling Program. [Top]

Rev. Vincent Pineda, Parochial Vicar

Rev. Vincent Pineda, ordained in 2005, is a native of the Philippines. Fr. Vincent previously was previously assigned as parochial vicar at the Church of the Resurrection in Sunnyvale. He began his assignment at St Joseph of Cupertino in July 2010. [Top]

Deacon Ron Hansen

Deacon Ron Hansen was ordained by Bishop Patrick McGrath, Bishop of San José, on January 13, 2007 and comes to Saint Joseph of Cupertino following his original assignment to Mission Santa Clara. He also serves as co-chair of the Committee for Continuing Education of Clergy. Deacon Hansen grew up in Omaha, Nebraska where he received his B. A. in English literature at Creighton University. Following military service as a Lieutenant in the Army, he earned a Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing at the famous Iowa Writers Workshop. He held a Wallace Stegner creative writing fellowship at Stanford University and taught there for three years before taking positions at the universities of Michigan, Cornell, Arizona, UC-Santa Cruz, and elsewhere. Since 1996 he has been the Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Santa Clara University, where he earned an M. A. from the Graduate Pastoral Ministries Program in 1995. Deacon Hansen is the author of twelve books, including Mariette in Ecstasy, Atticus, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, which was made into a movie starring Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck. His wife, Bo Caldwell, is also a fiction writer. Some parishioners may know her novel The Distant Land of My Father. Their daughter is attending medical school and their son is earning a graduate degree in musical theater at New York University. In addition to his other duties, Deacon Hansen leads a Bible study group on the Gospel. [Top]