Rev. John J. Kurgan is the pastor of Holy Cross Church in DeWitt and was the parochial vicar for St. Matthew, East Syracuse; the Church of the Nativity at St. Leo, Tully; Church of the Nativity at St. Joseph in Lafayette; Church of the Immaculate Conception, Pompey; and St. Patrick Mission, Otisco.
Father Kurgan is a native son of the Church of the Nativity at St. Joseph in Lafayette and attended the elementary and high school in LaFayette. Father Kurgan has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Le Moyne College and attended St. Mary’s Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland.