The ordination ceremony was initially set for early May but had to be postponed due to the restrictions on in-person gatherings caused by the coronavirus. It will be livestreamed on the archdiocesan website, miamiarch.org, at 10 a.m.

 

Deacon Tomonto, the oldest of three brothers, was born in Miami and attended St. Louis Covenant School in Pinecrest and Christopher Columbus High School in Miami. He graduated from the University of Miami in 2013 with a business degree and entered St. John Vianney College Seminary that same year. He continued his formation at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach. During his years in the seminary, he served summers at the Church of the Little Flower in Coral Gables and Immaculate Conception in Hialeah; did a summer of chaplaincy at Jackson Memorial Hospital and a pastoral year at St. Andrew Church in Coral Springs; and served his diaconate year at St. Coleman Church in Pompano Beach.