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Fr. Christopher Vincent Lamb, OP
By the time Fr. Lamb died, he was an institution in the Province and in the parishes he served. Much of our archives are due to his work and his recollections. He was born to Philip Lamb and Margaret Brady Lamb in Vallejo on July 28, 1871. At this time, Vallejo was served by the Dominicans. Fr. Vincent was baptized by a pioneer Dominican of the time, Fr. Louis Daniel, O.P. He also had the honor of being confirmed by Archbishop Alemany, O.P.
Two years after high school, he joined the Dominican Province. After his studies, he was ordained by Archbishop Riordan of San Francisco at St. Mary's Cathedral (Old Church). He immediately started work in our parish at Benicia, California. He continued for three years until he was called to San Francisco for a year. He returned to Benicia for another two years, and then became interim Pastor at Martinez for the year 1903.
Finally he received a long assignment, being moved to Portland, Oregon for ten years. During these years Holy Rosary in Portland became a Priory and he became the first Sub-Prior. He then moved to be Pastor in Vallejo for two years and afterward Prior and Pastor in Benicia for six years. In 1922 when the Postulants were moved to Kentfield to study, Fr. Lamb went there to teach. When the school dissolved and the postulants moved to Benicia, Fr. Lamb moved with them and became Prior and Pastor again for two terms with a minor stint in Vallejo as assistant and in Berkeley as Pastor. After his term as Prior and Pastor ended he moved back to Kentfield to teach, since the Novitiate had moved from Benicia to Kentfield the previous year. During his stay in Kentfield, he turned seventy years old. Therefore, in 1943 he took an easier job, Chaplain to the Dominican sisters in Everett, Washington. He moved with them when they moved to Edmonds, Washington, and died in Chehalis, Washington at St. Helen's Hospital in 1962 at the age of ninety.
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Date of Birth |
Date of Profession |
Date of Ordination |
Date of Death |
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July 28, 1871 |
May 31, 1891 |
December 21, 1895 |
March 6, 1962 |
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