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This Weekend's Masses: Sat @4PM, Lake Center in McHenry AND 6PM @the Oakland Church. Our 9AM Sunday Mass in Oakland has been canceled. See "CALENDAR."
Installation Mass of Father Bill Keown as our Pastor, December 1, 2024
A Year in Review From the Staff of St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Parish
Father Bill arrived at St. Peter the Apostle as our Pastor on July 1, 2024. Many opportunities to welcome others and enhance our faith practice have taken place during his first year. We have added a daily Mass on Thursdays, relocated our weekday Masses to our historic church, increased opportunities for Adoration and confessions, welcomed many new parishioners and hosted numerous visiting seminarians, deacons and priests from throughout the Archdiocese and beyond, and much more! We are truly thankful and blessed for his ministry and leadership and we pray for many more opportunities for growth and blessings under his guidance in the future.
Thank you, Father Bill. May God continue to abundantly bless you!
About Our Pastor, Father Bill Keown
About Father Bill Keown, Our Pastor
July 1, 2024
Fr. Bill was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Archbishop William Lori at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen on June 23, 2018. A native of Kentucky, Fr. Bill served 20 years in the US Navy as a translator of Russian and Arabic languages. His assignments included duty aboard surface ships, submarines, and aircraft with tours in Japan, Bahrain, California, Georgia, Maryland, and Tennessee. His military career brought him to Maryland in 2007, and it was here that he began discerning the call to priesthood after his retirement from the Navy in 2009.
As a seminarian, he served in the parish communities of St. Paul in Ellicott City, the Catholic Community of South Baltimore, the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, St. Ignatius in Hickory, St. Philip Neri in Linthicum, Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville, the Baltimore Basilica, and he served his deacon year at St. Margaret in Bel Air. He attended seminary at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore where he received his Master of Divinity (MDiv) and Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) degrees.
Fr. Bill’s first assignment was as an associate pastor in the pastorate of St. Louis Parish in Clarksville and St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Fulton. Archbishop Lori appointed Fr. Bill as Pastor of Our Lady of Victory and Catholic Chaplain to UMBC on February 15, 2020.
In July 2022, Fr. Bill was appointed to serve as the Director of Deacon Formation for the Archdiocese of Baltimore while continuing to serve as Pastor of OLV.
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