Rev. Keith M. Cervine was born in 1976 in Clifton, New Jersey to Michael and Dorothy Cervine.
Father Keith received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University College of Engineering (New Brunswick) in 1999, went to seminary at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore, Maryland where he received his Masters of Divinity and Baccalaureatum in Sacra Theologia (STB), and in 2021 was awarded Education Specialist (EdS) in Catholic School Leadership from Seton Hall University.
Father Keith was ordained to the Priesthood on May 23, 2009 by Bishop Paul G. Bootkoski at St Francis Cathedral. He served as Parochial Vicar here at Immaculate Conception from 2009-2010, the Associate Director of Vocations and the Director of the House of Discernment from 2009-2015 (located in Hopelawn and later Highland Park), Chaplain at the Catholic Center at Rutgers University in New Brunswick from 2010-2015, Parochial Vicar at St. Bernard of Clairvaux in Bridgewater from 2015-2016, and the Director of Catholic Identity in St. Thomas Aquinas High School (formerly Bishop Ahr High School) in Edison, NJ from 2016-2022 while in residence at St. Helena in Edison (2016-2021) and Our Lady of Czestochowa in South Plainfield (2021-2022). He was appointed by Bishop James Checchio as the Administrator of Immaculate Conception on August 1, 2022 and installed as Pastor May 7, 2023.
On the Diocesan level, Fr. Keith serves as interim President of Saint Thomas Aquinas High School..