Education:

A native of Rochester, Mannara is a graduate of the Aquinas Institute and Niagara University. He also holds a doctor of ministry degree from the Catholic Theological Union, where he was a Bernardin scholar, and a master of divinity degree from St. Bernard’s School of Theology and Ministry in Rochester.

After a career in secondary education, he served in lay ecclesial ministry before pursuing ordained ministry. His doctoral research included how places of worship are designed and he is the author of the book, That All May Be One: Consolidating Church Buildings When Parishes Merge, and several journal articles.