Pastor Mario Sandro Massimiliano Catalano
Senior Pastor
pastorcatalano@bellnet.ca
Pastor Mario Catalano has served as Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Pentecostal Christian Church since February 19th 2007. Prior to coming to Emmanuel Pastor Mario Catalano served as Senior Pastor of Hosanna Christian Pentecostal Church in Montreal since September 2002. He also served in other capacities in other Churches, both in Montreal and Italy: At Emmanuel Pentecostal Christian Church (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) as Associate pastor (1997-2002) At Perugia, Assemblies of God (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) as senior pastor (1993-1997) At Smirra di Cagli, Assemblies of God (Pesaro-Urbino, Marche, Italy) as assistant pastor (1988- 1993) At Casabona, Assemblies of God (Crotone, Calabria, Italy) as Interim Pastor (1998)

Background:
Pastor Mario Sandro Massimiliano Catalano was born in the small town of Santa Elisabetta in Sicily (Italy) on the 14 June of 1965. He grew up in a pastoral family and felt a sense of God's calling on his life at an early age.
He received his theological formation at the Italian Bible Institute (Rome, Italy), where he graduated in 1988.
He continued his study at the Urbino University (Italy), where he graduate in Sociology (1993), disserting upon a experimental thesis research on "Sharing The Faith Among Teenager Groups" Pastor Mario Catalano started his ministry in Italy among the Churches of Assemblies of God in Italy (A.D.I.), but God had different plans for him and now he is established in Canada with his family, since January 1997.

Personal Challenge:
As a minister of the Gospel (the Good News) I learned to take Jesus Christ as my source and inspiration for my ministry (Galatians 2:20). Sometimes as pastors we have the tendency to preach the Gospel focusing only on the salvation of the soul. This is indeed a part of the Good News, but is not a holistic view of Jesus' call.
Jesus' life, teachings, suffering, death and resurrection covered more than just making us a way to get to heaven. It's not even exclusively about me or you as individuals, but the call of Jesus includes the entirety of creation and eternity. This means that we don't just live life waiting for eternal life to begin, but instead we ought respond now and here to His call, practicing the same kind of gentle yet vital living that Jesus exemplified.
Family: Pastor Mario Catalano and his wife, Laura, have been married since 1991 and have two children, Jonathan and David.