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Death in our diocesan family: Matthew Daniel Piermatti II

Matthew Daniel Piermatti II

With sadness we share the news of the death of Matthew Daniel Piermatti II on March 25, 2017 at the age of 66. A Memorial Service will be held at 2 PM on Sunday April 2, 2017 at St. Paul's Church, 4 Woodland Road, Montvale.

Matthew was appointed to the Commission on Ministry (COM) and the Diocesan Task Force on Ethics by Bishop John Shelby Spong, and reappointed and made chairman of the Commission by Bishop John Palmer Croneberger. As chair of COM he developed a Diaconal Subcommittee and a Lay Subcommittee whose work it was to raise up and support lay ministries in the diocese of Newark. He also served on the Civil Union Task Force and on the Transition Committee that brought Bishop Mark Beckwith to the Diocese of Newark.

A graduate of Seton Hall University B.A. 1975, St. Mary's Law School in Texas 1976 and the Marshall Wythe School of Law at the University of Exeter, Devon, England, Matthew was a member of the Bars of the states of New Jersey and New York and maintained a law practice in Bergen County since 1979.

He was also a former adjunct professor of law at William Paterson College, a member of Manhattan's prestigious Amateur Comedy Club, the Rolls Royce Owner's Club, the Titanic Historical Society, and a former committee member of the International Debutante Ball in New York City.

In his spare time, Matthew published two books and served as the archival silver flatware expert for Tiffany & Co., and was a former member of the Suburban Essex Riding Academy.

He is survived by his many friends.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Matthews memory may be made to St. Paul's Church, 4 Woodland Road, Montvale, NJ 07645.

God, our Father, we thank you that you have made each of us in your own image,
and given us gifts and talents with which to serve you.
We thank you for Matthew, the years we shared with him,
the good we saw in him, the love we received from him.
Now give us strength and courage, to leave himin your care,
confident in your promise of eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.