Two Chapter Prioresses Elected to Serve Adrian Dominican Chapters 

April 19, Adrian, Michigan – Within a month, two Adrian Dominican Sisters were elected to serve as Chapter Prioress, providing leadership for their respective Mission Chapters. They will serve six-year terms, beginning on July 1, 2012.

Sister Mary Eileen Sullivan, OP, was elected on March 17, 2012, to serve as Chapter Prioress of the Florida Mission Chapter. Sister Zenaida S. Nacpil, OP, was elected on April 11, 2012, as the first Chapter Prioress of the newly formed Our Lady of Remedies Mission Chapter. This Chapter encompasses the former members of the Dominican Sisters of Our Lady of Remedies, a Pampanga, Philippines-based Congregation that merged with the Adrian Dominican Sisters in November 2011.

Sister Eileen, currently principal of Pope John Paul II High School in Boca Raton, Florida, was born in Rockford, Illinois. She graduated from Bishop Muldoon High School in Rockford, where she was taught by the Adrian Dominican Sisters, and entered the Congregation.

Sister Eileen’s ministerial experience has been in formal Catholic education, beginning as a teacher. In 1983, after serving as co-principal of Rosarian Academy in West Palm Beach, Florida – an elementary school sponsored by the Adrian Dominican Congregation – Sister Eileen began as a teacher at Pope John Paul II High School. She became an administrator in 1986, and continued to serve at the high school until 1998. She returned to her hometown that year and served as Assistant Superintendent of Schools for the Rockford Diocese. Sister Eileen returned to Pope John Paul II School in 2004 to serve as principal.

Sister Eileen will succeed Sister Ann Liam Lees, OP.

Sister Zenaida entered the Our Lady of Remedies Congregation in 1969 and has served in numerous leadership roles in the Congregation, in the Dominican Order, and in the Archdiocese of San Fernando. She served as Prioress of the Congregation for four three-year terms, from 1988 to 1994 and from 1998 to 2004. Sister Zenaida was also the Novice Formator for the Our Lady of Remedies Congregation.

Sister Zenaida served the Archdiocese of San Fernando as the archdiocesan catechetical coordinator and was the only woman religious to serve on the planning committee for the first Archdiocesan Synod. In addition, she represented Asia and the Pacific for the Dominican Sisters International (DSI). Since 2005, she has been ministering with immigrants from the Philippines and other nations in Bodo, Norway.

As Chapter Prioress, Sisters Eileen and Zenaida will serve as major superior of the Sisters in their respective Mission Chapters. They chair their Chapter’s Mission Council on the local level and are members of the Congregation’s Leadership Council, made up of the Prioress of the Congregation, the General Council, and the Chapter Prioresses. The Adrian Dominican Congregation is comprised of eight Mission Chapters, organized geographically.