Fr. Ivan Olmo has recently joined Annunciation Catholic Church in Altamonte Springs.

Born and raised in New York, Olmo received an associate degree in accounting, a bachelor's degree in business management and an MBA, a note in the church's Aug. 23 bulletin said. He had a 23-year career in management at a telephone company before he was called to be a priest— "when a priest from New Jersey told him that he had a vocation in the priesthood."

"That conversation planted a seed in [my] heart that continued to blossom," Olmo said in the bulletin. "[I] studied at St. Joseph Catholic College in Standish, Maine, before entering Blessed John XXIII National Seminary in Weston, Massachusetts, a seminary for men who receive their calling to the priesthood later in life."

On May 25, 2013, he was ordained a priest by Bishop John Noonan and has recently been transferred to Annunciation Catholic Church.

“God is so gracious and kind to allow me the opportunity to share in his profound love, and to be able to express this love and share it through the celebration of the sacred Mass," Olmo said.