Welcome Fr. Peter Fernandes!

I am a member of the Society of the Missionaries of St. Francis Xavier, which was founded in Goa, India, in 1887. I was educated in India and was ordained a priest in my own village by Archbishop Patriarch Raul Gonsalves on April 27, 1999.

After ordination, I served two years in the mission of Bhopal as director of the minor seminary for students coming from the hinterland. My second assignment was in the Archdiocese of Portland, OR, where I had an enriching experience.
 
Cardinal Francis George asked the Society to take charge of a parish in the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the Society asked me to take up this challenge.  And so I landed at St. Timothy Parish, on Chicago’s far north side, where I served for 14 years.  Today, three priests from my Society serve at two parishes in the archdiocese.
 
Last July, the order’s Fr. Superior General asked me to return to India to take up a new challenge, that is, to administrate an institution which has over 8 thousand students ranging from KG to college degree in Mumbai. 
 
I am back in the United States for a short time, so that I can finish my master’s degree in theology while I am serving at St. Hubert. I will return to India sometime in August. Thank you for accepting me at your parish. In my short time here, I hope to share my faith with you and I am sure you will enrich my own faith as we journey together with the Lord.