July 20, 2016

Napa, Calif. –  A Mass of Christian Burial for Father Paul Francis Lederman, 81, a priest incardinated in the Diocese of Ogdensburg, was held July 12 at St. John the Baptist Church.

He died July 5 in La Quinta, California.

Father Lederman was born in Utica, N.Y., June 30, 1935, the son of Francis Ledermann and Hazel Breslin.  He undertook his preparatory studies at Sacred Heart Seminary in Girard, Pennsylvania and also at Divine Word Seminary in Conesus, New York and St. Mary’s Seminary in Technys, Illinois.  His theological studies were completed at Christ the King Seminary in St. Bonaventure, New York.

He was ordained for the Diocese of Ogdensburg by Bishop James J. Navagh on March 30, 1963.

Following ordination, Father Lederman was assigned as assistant at Notre Dame in Malone followed by assignments as assistant at Sacred Heart in Massena, St. Alphonsus in Tupper Lake  in 1964, St. Patrick’s in Rouses Point, 1966; and Holy Family in Watertown,1969. 

Father Lederman was granted a leave of absence in 1970 when he moved to California. He served in the Diocese of Santa Rosa at two parishes from 1981 until 1989.

From 1989 until his retirement in 2009 he was chaplain of the Veterans Home of California in Yountville which is also located in the Diocese of Santa Rosa.

Following his retirement, Father Ledermann relocated to La Quinta, California.