Fr. Patrick Kizza

pkizza@stpatrick-lakeforest.org

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Patrick Kizza was one of 11 children in his family. After Catholic elementary and high schools, he attended a teacher’s training college with the intention of being a middle school religion teacher. Then he entered the Servants of Mary religious community and went to seminary in Nairobi, Kenya. After discerning that life in a religious community was not what he was called to, he returned to teach and work as an outreach minister in Uganda.

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Kizza then received a scholarship to study at Catholic Theological Union. There, he said, the seed of a vocation to the priesthood continued to develop.

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“After long discernment, I felt that God was calling me to be a priest in the Archdiocese of Chicago,” Kizza said, and he entered the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary.