{"id":4010,"date":"2016-05-17T15:49:12","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2016-05-17T15:51:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T19:51:34","slug":"congratulation-father-wayne-on-your-50th-anniversary-of-your-ordination-to-the-priesthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/?p=4010","title":{"rendered":"Congratulation Father Wayne On the 50th Anniversary of Your Ordination to the Priesthood."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"fatherwayne\"<\/a>Father Wayne J. Ruchgy, Phd, has always relied on God\u2019s trusted timing and sense of humor in finding his path in life.\u00a0 Born and raised in Wayne, Michigan, the only son of Joseph and Ann Ruchgy, Fr. Wayne received a degree in Philosophy from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington Ohio in 1962.\u00a0 That timing and sense of humor showed itself soon after graduation, when by chance the opportunity came to enter St. Josaphat\u2019s Ukrainian Catholic Seminary, taking Fr. Wayne on a path different than his Roman Catholic upbringing.\u00a0 From the Catholic University of America he earned his License in Sacred Theology in 1966 and was ordained a priest that same year.\u00a0 His first assignment brought him home to Detroit at St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Church, where he served as assistant pastor for four years.\u00a0 In 1970 God\u2019s timing was again present, leading Fr. Wayne to begin a second career path, becoming a teacher, Guidance Counselor, and eventually a Psychologist for the Detroit Public Schools and the Wayne County Regional Educational Service Agency.\u00a0 In addition to earning a Master\u2019s Degree in Guidance and Counseling, in 2004 he received his second Master\u2019s Degree, and then a Doctorate, in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit \u2013 Mercy.\u00a0 He chose to specialize his skills helping special needs students.\u00a0 Until recently, Father Wayne maintained a Clinical Psychology practice that provided therapy to people without insurance.\u00a0 These educational achievements coincided with his concurrent pastoral leadership of St. Michael\u2019s Ukrainian Catholic Church in Dearborn Michigan, which he assumed in 1977 and holds to this day. This dual career has revealed to Fr. Wayne the compatible and supportive, not adversarial or contradictory, connection between Faith and Psychology, and he counts this insight as one of the great blessings granted him across both vocations.\u00a0 Father Wayne has served as a Consultor for the Eparchy since 1993, and was honored to act as Protosyncellus, retiring in 2016 after twenty-three years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Father Wayne J. Ruchgy, Phd, has always relied on God\u2019s trusted timing and sense of humor in finding his path in life.\u00a0 Born and raised in Wayne, Michigan, the only son of Joseph and Ann Ruchgy, Fr. Wayne received a … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-desk-of-our-aspiring-deacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4010"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4016,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4010\/revisions\/4016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stmichaelarchangel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}