70 Years - Belong - Believe - Become
Fr. Pat Woods
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Pastorp.woodsssmd.caFr. Pat was born the youngest of seven children in Toronto and later as a child moved to North Bay with his family. Baptized and raised Roman Catholic, Fr. Pat attended catholic school and began to hear Gods's call as a young man. After pursuing different interests, Fr. Pat entered St. Augustine's Seminary in 1997 as a candidate for the Diocese of Sault Ste Marie. After 5 years in the Seminary Fr. Pat was ordained to the priesthood on the 24th of May 2002 and assigned to the merging parishes of Our Lady of Hope in Sudbury as an associate pastor.
Fr. Pat moved to Wawa where he was assigned pastor of St. Monica's parish in Wawa and St. John Francis Regis parish in Pic Mobert in 2004. In 2005, Fr. Pat was assigned director of the Catholic Youth Office for the diocese and moved to Thessalon to become pastor of St. Ambrose parish in Thessalon and St. Boniface parish on St. Joseph Island. Fr. Pat was then sent to St. Kevin's parish in Greater Sudbury in 2005 while continuing to work the Catholic Youth Office. In 2008, Fr. Pat was assigned pastor of Our Lady of Peace parish in Capreaol while remaining pastor of St. Kevin's and ministering in the Catholic Youth Office. In 2009, he was asked to merge St. Kevin's and Our Lady of Peace parishes into the new St. Kevin's parish with two worship sites and give up his responsibilities in the Catholic Youth Office. Fr. Pat became the pastor of Our Lady of Good Counsel parish in Sault Ste Marie in September of 2011 as well as becoming Dean of the Algoma Region of the diocese. In the fall of 2014, Fr. Pat was asked to leave parish ministry to travel the diocese fulltime as Vocation Director visiting parishes and schools to establish a culture of vocations throughout the diocese.
On the 1st of July 2015, Fr. Pat became the seventh pastor of St. Jerome's parish while remaining director of the Office of Vocations and Youth Ministry for the diocese. In 2019, Fr. Pat gave up his responsibility for the Office or Vocations and Youth Ministry while remaining the pastor of St. Jerome’s. Fr. Pat was reassigned to Our Lady of Hope Parish in Sudbury in September of 2021 and became the Diocesan Spiritual Advisor for the Catholic Women’s League in March of 2022. On September 1st 2022 Fr. Pat became the pastor of St. Patrick’s Parish in Sudbury.
