 Fr. Carl Schlichte, OP
Fr. Carl was born on June 10, 1970. He met the Dominicans as a junior at De La Salle High School in
Concord, CA through the chaplain who was a Dominican. He attended St. Mary's College of California for two
years, where he studied in the great books (Integral) program. He made first profession on September 14,
1991, was ordained a deacon in the Crypt Church of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in
Washington, DC in January 1997 and was ordained a priest on May 29, 1998. His ministries during formation
including Eucharistic ministry to the homebound, assisting at and directing retreats, and telephone
counseling for a suicide prevention/crisis intervention service. During his last years of formation, he
learned Russian for the possibility of serving in the Order’s ministries in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Fr. Carl has served at St. Catherine's Newman Center in Salt Lake City (as a Residency
student), St. Mary's Church in Piscataway, MD (immediately before and after ordination to the diaconate),
St. Dominic's Church in San Francisco (as a deacon), St. Dominic's Church in Los Angeles, (and
simultaneously Catholic chaplain at Occidental College), Holy Rosary Church in Antioch, CA, the Catholic
Community at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA and briefly as pastor of St. Thomas More University
Parish (Newman Center) in Eugene, OR. He currently serves as prior of Holy Rosary Priory in Portland, OR
(through June 2009). He hopes to pursue further studies in either Canon law or theology.
Updated: July 18, 2007
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