George Crespin is a Latino Catholic priest who serves the community of St. Cornelius Church in Richmond, California as a priest in residence. He was born in Vaughn, New Mexico in 1936, and his family eventually settled in the San Francisco Bay Area following the end of World War II. He attended St. Joseph’s College Minor Seminary from 1951 to 1956 and St. Patrick’s Major Seminary from 1956 to 1962. He was ordained as a priest in 1962, the year the Catholic Diocese of Oakland was established. He served as chancellor and vicar general of the diocese, and he was also the pastor of St. Joseph the Worker Church, a Berkeley landmark, for more than twenty years. In this donated interview, Crespin discusses the beginning and growth of the Oakland diocese; the changes in practice and policy in the Catholic Church ​locally and internationally; social justice issues, such as civil rights and the Vietnam War; and his work with the Latino community in Berkeley, including the Latino students at the University of California, Berkeley.