Joseph M. Champlin

[3] He also frequented local radio with inspirational insights, always concluding with, “You may have tried everything else, why not try God?” He spent a year at the North American College in Rome, Italy.

In 1997, Champlin founded the Guardian Angel Society, a non-profit domestic trust effort to provide tuition assistance to children from economically challenged homes.

The Society has raised close to $2 million and as of 2019 helped 300 youngsters reach their academic potential and have a better chance at life.

[4] Champlin traveled more than two million miles here and abroad, lecturing on liturgical and pastoral matters as well as conducting retreats for priests and parish missions.

[6] Upon return of Champlin's cremains from Upstate Medical Center, they were interred on March 19, 2009, in the crypt of the Syracuse Cathedral.