Director named to new USCCB office overseeing national collections

Published: 2007-04-17

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Patrick Markey has been named the first executive director of the National Collections Office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The appointment takes effect Jan. 1. The U.S. bishops' Committee on National Collections comes into being in November as part of the ongoing USCCB reorganization. It will take the place of standing committees for distinct national collections. As executive director, Markey will serve as staff to the committee. The office will help the committee build a new awareness of the church's needs that are addressed through the national collections. Collections coming under the office's purview include Peter's Pence, Catholic Relief Services, Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, Catholic Home Missions Appeal, Church in Latin America, Catholic Communication Campaign and Catholic Campaign for Human Development. Markey has been associate director for marketing, sales and inventory for USCCB Publishing since 2003.

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