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Fr. John Evans, OP
I first encountered the Dominican friars while attending the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.  After completing a B.S. (Economics) degree, I worked for five years as a computer programmer and manager.  I entered the novitiate in August of 1996, a formation and education program that normally takes eight years to complete.

I earned a B.A. (Philosophy), and Masters of Divinity, but that is only one aspect of the "seminary."   Aside from academics, I was privileged to spend my pastoral residency year at All Saints Catholic Newman Center at Arizona State University.  This pastoral experience was invaluable, and I met so many wonderful people.   I also spent a summer in the Clinical Pastoral Education program at Emanuel (sic) Hospital in Portland, Oregon.  This experience taught me many skills as well.   I was ordained to the diaconate on May 1, 2003, and to the priesthood on May 29, 2004.  All the while during the seminary years, we engage in a ministry and the prayer life within our Dominican community of friars.

I enjoy moral theology, playing guitar, web development, MLB, scuba diving, fly fishing, and a game of chess now and then.  To read more about my vocation story and more, see the links below.

Last Updated 11/15/07

List of Assignments

• St. Thomas More University Parish, Eugene, Oregon, July 2004
  Campus ministry in our Newman Center for the University of Oregon
   

• St. Dominic Catholic Church, Los Angeles, California, October 2007
  Parish ministry in English and Spanish.

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