Father Joseph M. Brodeur pictured at his Ordination Mass on June 29, 2024 at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, Providence.
As announced last weekend, we are grateful to Bishop Lewandowski for assigning Father Joseph M. Brodeur as our new Associate Pastor. Father begins his priestly ministry at OLM on July 1 after his return from Rome, where he is presently finishing up his theological studies.
Born and raised in Westerly, he is the youngest of four children. He is a native son of Saint Pius X Church, where Father Mahoney currently serves as Pastor. Fr. Brodeur attended the parish school from kindergarten to eighth grade before graduating from Westerly High School in 2016.
He then entered the Our Lady of Providence Seminary for his priestly formation during his college years. He is an alumnus of Providence College, where he earned his B.A. in Philosophy and Classics in 2020.
Fr. Brodeur greets the late Holy Father Pope Francis at the Pontifical North American College.
Following college, Father undertook his priestly formation at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where he earned a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas ('Angelicum'). He was ordained a priest on June 29, 2024, by then Bishop Henning.
Last summer, he served as Associate Pastor at Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Mary Parishes in Bristol before returning to Rome to complete a Licentiate in Liturgical Theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross ('Santa Croce'). He has been living at the Casa Santa Maria, the American priest graduate house in Rome.
We certainly look forward to his arrival and having Father Brodeur with us at OLM. I know you will give him your usual warm welcome when he arrives in July. Keep him in your prayers