On December 6, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Father Gerald N. Dino, 67, Protosyncellus (Vicar General) of the Passaic Eparchy and pastor of Saint George Parish, Linden, NJ, to succeed Bishop Skurla as Bishop of Van Nuys.

Bishop-elect Dino will be ordained and enthroned at Saint Helen Catholic Church in Phoenix, on Bright Thursday, March 27, 2008.

Bishop-elect Gerald N. Dino was born in Binghamton, New York, on January 11, 1940. He received a bachelor of arts degree, cumlaude, from Duquesne University in 1961, and a completed graduate theological studies from the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius Seminary, Pittsburgh, in 1965. He was ordained a priest for the Eparchy of Passaic on March 21, 1965. He received a licentiate degree in Oriental Ecclesiastical Studies from the Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome, in 1972, and completed graduate work in religious communication from Loyola University, New Orleans, 1973.

After ordination, he was assistant pastor of Saint John the Baptist Parish, Pottstown, PA, 1967-1967, and Saint Michael Parish, Perth Amboy, New Jersey,1967-1969, and pastor, Saint Nicholas Parish, Dunellen, NJ, 1969-1970. He did graduate studies in Rome from 1970-1972, and from 1973-1979, was professor and academic dean at the Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius.

From1979-1996, he was pastor of Holy Ghost Parish, in Jessup, Pennsylvania, and from1996 until the present, pastor of Saint George Parish, in Linden. In 2000, he was named administrator of Saints Peter and Paul Parish, Elizabeth, NJ.