What kind of priest do you like to have as a parish priest?

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One that is approachable but at the same time lets me have my space and one who teaches the truth of our Catholic faith in his homilies.
 
I want (and am blessed to have) a priest who cares so much about each individual soul that he is perfectly willing to mess with your life as much as you will allow him to. I want a priest who cares for the flock, not just as “the congregation” but as the individual sheep. I want a priest who thinks the 3 best places in the world are:
  1. the Adoration Chapel
  2. the Altar, consecrating and receiving the Eucharist
  3. the confessional
I am so blessed at my parish that both our Pastor and Parochial Vicar both meet the three qualifications in their own way. They are very different people. And our two retired priests are also the same way. As I said, I am very blessed.

Kris
 
One with good rhetorical and oratory skills to preach a really good homily.
 
Orthodox and fatherly; not a pal (approachable, but not by gimmicks, like removing altar rails or yuk yuks and commenting on the weather or ball game outside the homily)–that sums it up for me. Some of that would come by experience, but some would come by seminary education. Bishops defenitely should be the above. The people need to see the clergy respecting their habit, the Mass and the Faith and, by extension, Jesus as the consecrated host and as both our bringer of divine mercy brother and as just judge, who cawill separate the wheat from the tares. Then, there may be less childish behavior by both adults and children before, during and after Mass and blasphemies at many family gatherings (most likely tbose of middle-class suburbanites).
 
Reading the replies in this thread, I was reminded of Pope Francis’ chrism Mass homily from last year which expresses things far better than I could myself (forgive the lengthy quote):
A good priest can be recognized by the way his people are anointed: this is a clear proof. When our people are anointed with the oil of gladness, it is obvious: for example, when they leave Mass looking as if they have heard good news. Our people like to hear the Gospel preached with “unction”, they like it when the Gospel we preach touches their daily lives, when it runs down like the oil of Aaron to the edges of reality, when it brings light to moments of extreme darkness, to the “outskirts” where people of faith are most exposed to the onslaught of those who want to tear down their faith. People thank us because they feel that we have prayed over the realities of their everyday lives, their troubles, their joys, their burdens and their hopes. And when they feel that the fragrance of the Anointed One, of Christ, has come to them through us, they feel encouraged to entrust to us everything they want to bring before the Lord: “Pray for me, Father, because I have this problem”, “Bless me Father”, “Pray for me” – these words are the sign that the anointing has flowed down to the edges of the robe, for it has turned into a prayer of supplication, the supplication of the People of God.
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Those who do not go out of themselves, instead of being mediators, gradually become intermediaries, managers. We know the difference: the intermediary, the manager, “has already received his reward”, and since he doesn’t put his own skin and his own heart on the line, he never hears a warm, heartfelt word of thanks. This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad – sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with “the odour of the sheep”. This I ask you: be shepherds, with the “odour of the sheep”, make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men.
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I have liked the following in priests we’ve had:

-solid homilies
-intelligence
-prudence
-strong pastoral sense
-availability
 
I’d like one like Father Z: Say the Black and Do the Red.
 
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