It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden passing of Fr. David LeFort, following a medical leave.
Fr. LeFort was raised in the Ballston Lake/Glenville area. He attended seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He was ordained on July 3, 1998, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. He served as an associate pastor at Our Lady of the Assumption in Latham from 1999-2002. He went on to serve as pastor at St. Ann’s in Fort Ann and Our Lady of Hope in Whitehall from 2002-2007. He took on the role of vocations director of Seminary Formation from 2004-2009, and during that time, also moved to St Mary’s in Clinton Heights to become pastor there from 2007-2017. In 2017 he was named Vicar General for the Diocese. Later that year, he became Rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany. He left the Cathedral in 2021 and continued his role as Vicar General. He had also been serving as the Diocesan Director of The Pontifical Mission Societies.
We ask for prayers for Fr. LeFort, his family, and his brothers and sisters in Christ throughout the Diocese.
Details on services will be forthcoming.
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