Meet Our Priests

Biographies

Fr. David Medow - Pastor

Fr. David Medow, Pastor of St. Mary Immaculate Parish, arrived on the staff here in July, 1998. He became the Pastor of the parish in June, 2005.

A native of Chicago, Fr. David is notable for being a married priest. He was raised a Lutheran and was ordained a Lutheran minister in 1985, serving for nearly 12 years. He was received into the Roman Catholic Church on November 1, 1996 by Bishop Joseph Imesch and received permission from Rome to begin a course of study for the priesthood. Fr. David is one of about 150 married Roman Catholic priests in the United States: the Holy Father occasionally gives permission for the ordination of married, former clergy from other denominations who become Catholic and complete at least three years of training for priesthood. Currently, Fr. David is the only married priest in the Joliet Diocese and one of only a small handful in the Midwestern United States.
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Fr. David Mowry - Parochial Vicar

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Fr. John Regan - Priest-in-Residence

I am grateful that Bishop Conlon has assigned me to serve as a parish priest at St. Mary Immaculate. I was ordained in 1989 and began serving as a parochial vicar at St. Liborius Parish, in Steger. From 1993 to 2006 I served as the Joliet Diocese Vocation Director. In 2006 I was named pastor of St. Walter Parish, in Roselle. Since July 2008 I have been on a leave of absence from public ministry. In March of this year Bishop Conlon assigned me to St. Jude Parish, in Joliet, to begin the transition back to priestly ministry. In addition to serving as a parish priest at St. Mary Immaculate, I also work a secular job, currently in a local factory.

I look forward to celebrating Christ’s presence in the daily situations of our lives and sharing the Good News of God’s love and mercy. God is Good … All the Time.
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