Cumberland native ordained Capuchin priest

From The Superior Catholic Herald...
 

Friar Nathan Linton was ordained to the priesthood for the Capuchin Franciscan order by Bishop Jeffrey Haines, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, at St. Francis of Assisi Church, Milwaukee, on Saturday, June 24.

A 2013 graduate of Cumberland High School, he entered Capuchin formation in Chicago, spent a brief period of discernment as a seminarian for the Diocese of Superior, and then returned to the Capuchin order as a postulant in 2015.

He professed first vows in August 2017 and continued his ministry formation and undergraduate studies, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy from the University of Illinois Chicago in 2019. He professed final vows in 2021, graduated with a Master’s of Divinity degree from the Catholic Theological Union in 2023 and was ordained a deacon at St. Lawrence Seminary High School, where he serves as campus minister and senior dorm supervisor.

The friar’s call to religious life and the priesthood came as his father followed a vocation to the permanent diaconate in his teenage years. Dcn. Steve Linton serves as parish life coordinator at St. Anthony Abbot, Cumberland; he and his wife, Mary, have a long history of service.

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