Our Vision
To actively promote an effective new evangelization for our parishioners and those who do not participate in our parish community
Our parish is a genuinely united Church community of Faith, firmly and solidly based upon the rock of our Catholic Faith, whose witness of the Gospel values, especially mercy and hospitality, is an effective source of inspiration and the spreading of God’s kingdom among the people living in Jamaica, New York.
OUR Mission
Fr. Victor Manuel Bolaños
Ordained 4 June 2016
After his ordination, Fr. Victor was assigned as Parochial Vicar of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. After serving for four years as parochial vicar, Fr. Victor was assigned as Administrator on 2020. Fr. Victor was installed as Pastor in 2021.
Fr. George Kurian, CMI
Fr. George was ordained December 28, 2000. Before coming to the Diocese of Brooklyn, Fr. George served in Peru for 20 years. He was assigned as parochial vicar of Transfiguration in Brooklyn. In 2024 Fr. George was assigned as parochial vicar of Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Queens.
Fr. Álvaro Morales Sánchez
Fr. Alvaro was ordained on June 28, 2025 at the Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph in Brooklyn by Bishop Robert J. Brennan. He was assigned as parochial vicar of Presentation upon ordination.
Msgr. John Vesey
Ordained June 1, 1968. In 1984, Msgr. John Vesey was a Maryknoll missionary working with the indigenous people of southwestern Guatemala. In 2005, Msgr. Vesey joined the missionary apostolate with the Maryknoll Society in China, where he worked until 2014. Bishop DiMarzio then invited him back to Queens to pastor St. Michael’s, a multicultural parish with large communities of Hispanic and Asian Catholics. After a long life devoted to the service of the Church, Msgr. Vesey passed to a semi retired status while remaining in residence at Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, Msgr. remains very active in the ministry!
Deacon John Solarte
Ordained May 25, 2013
Deacon Raul Elias
Ordained December 8, 2007