Rev. Robert C. Pasley, KCHS, a priest of the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey, is the President of the Church Music Association of America.  He has been a member of the CMAA since his ordination, and has served as its director of liturgy for 17 years.  Introduced to CMAA by Msgr. Richard Schuler, then editor of Sacred Music, he has attended the Sacred Music Colloquium most of the years since the first in 1990.

Father Pasley received a B.A. in Philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia, an M.A. in Dogmatic Theology from Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary, Emmitsburg, and an M.A. in Education from Seton Hall University. He was ordained by the Most Reverend George H. Guilfoyle in 1982.

On October 13, 2000 Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio appointed Fr. Pasley Rector of the newly established Parish of Mater Ecclesiae, Berlin, New Jersey (materecclesiae.org), the first diocesan-run Extraordinary Form parish in the United States.