{"id":81972,"date":"2026-04-06T08:27:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81972"},"modified":"2026-04-06T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T12:28:12","slug":"idaho-catholic-diocese-launches-program-to-recruit-priests-amid-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/idaho-catholic-diocese-launches-program-to-recruit-priests-amid-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Idaho Catholic Diocese Launches Program To Recruit Priests Amid Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From<em> The Spokesman-Review:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the state of Idaho, Catholic priests are a precious commodity especially when the number of converts is steadily rising but the supply of priests in the pipeline ready to meet this growing demand is lagging.<\/p>\n<p>The Catholic Diocese of Boise shared publicly last week about its record numbers of people coming through its church doors. The Diocesan Office of Development sent an email to approximately 227,000 Idaho Catholics sharing a message from Bishop Peter F. Christensen that celebrated the \u201cnotable growth\u201d and acknowledged \u201csomething was going on.\u00a0 \u201cThe situation is rather dire in terms of our need for priests here,\u201d said the Rev. Nelson Cintra, 40, the Parochial Vicar at the Lady of the Valley parish in Caldwell. In February, he was appointed to the new position of priesthood \u201cVocations Promoter\u201d by Bishop Christensen, and Cintra is now launching a full-scale program to foster young men interested in serving God.\u00a0According to a 2025 end year report compiled by the Diocese\u2019s Office of Development, Idaho has 107 parishes, stations and chapels statewide served by approximately 90 priests.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1775464078\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Idaho Catholic Diocese Launches Program To Recruit Priests Amid Shortage\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Spokesman-Review: In the state of Idaho, Catholic priests are a precious commodity especially when the number of converts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81973,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81972\/revisions\/81973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}