Most Reverend Joseph A. Galante, D.D., J.C.D., Bishop of Camden, has appointed Peter Feuerherd, as director of communications for the Diocese of Camden.
Feuerherd is a media consultant for the New York Province of the Jesuits and an adjunct professor of journalism and communications at St. John’s University, New York.
Previously, he was managing editor for the American Bible Society Record Magazine, and worked in various editing and writing positions for diocesan newspapers in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Albany, N.Y.; Detroit, Long Island and New York City. His articles have appeared throughout the Catholic and secular press and he is the author of “Holyland USA: A Catholic Ride Through America’s Evangelical Landscape” (Crossroad). Feuerherd also co-hosted The Catholic Forum, a current events program seen on cable television in the dioceses of Rockville Centre and Brooklyn.
He earned a master’s degree in communications from the State University of New York at Albany and a bachelor’s in theology from St. John’s University, New York.
As director of communications, he will serve as associate publisher of the Catholic Star Herald, as the diocesan spokesperson and as an advisor on communications for Bishop Galante.