Father Leonard J. DiNola, who served for 43 years as parochial vicar of three parishes in the archdiocese, died March 30. He was 87. Father DiNola was at St. Christopher, Buchanan, 1982-2001; St. Ann, Ossining, 1963-1982; and St. Roch, Staten Island, 1958-1963.

Cardinal Dolan presided at the burial April 6 in Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne. “He was so kind,” said Msgr. Peter O’Donnell, who was a classmate of Father DiNola’s at St. Joseph’s Seminary in Dunwoodie. “He was a very approachable priestly person.