D’Agostino
StaubCHARLOTTE — Deacon Jack Staub has been appointed spiritual advisor for the English-speaking Cursillo, replacing Deacon Michael Martini.
Also, Deacon Ralph D’Agostino has been appointed Deacon Coordinator for the Triad Region, replacing Deacon Marcos Mejias.
Deacon Staub was raised in New Orleans and earned a chemical engineering degree from LSU.
He worked in engineering and sales for Cytec Industries. He and his wife Susan have been married for 42 years and have four children and five grandchildren.
Ordained in 2014, he serves at St. Matthew Parish in Charlotte, where his family has been parishioners for 28 years.
Deacon Staub serves with Cursillo, RCIA, homeless ministry, adult faith formation and homebound ministry. He coordinates the parish’s Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion and is also Continuing Education Coordinator for the Permanent Diaconate program.
Deacon D’Agostino was born in Cambridge, Mass., and attended Bowdoin College and Harvard University, where he earned master’s and doctorate degrees in statistics. He then joined the faculty at Wake Forest School of Medicine.
He is professor of biostatistics and data science and directs the Biostatistics Shared Resource for the Comprehensive Cancer Center and is program director for the graduate program in Clinical Research Management. He and his wife Carey have been married for 32 years, and they have six children and three grandchildren. They have been parishioners at St. Leo the Great Parish in Winston-Salem for 27 years. He was ordained a deacon in 2018 and assigned to St. Leo Parish. He is involved with baptismal and marriage preparation at the parish and has been a spiritual leader for the Winston-Salem Cursillo Group for several years.
— Deacon John Kopfle