Native Place: Concord, CA
Entered Novitiate: August 24, 2019
First Promise: September 4, 2020
Final Promise: August 31, 2024
Diaconate Ordination: September 7, 2024
Priestly Ordination: May 17, 2025
Paulist Fr. Ben Chisholm earned his undergraduate degree from Fordham University and his J.D. from Notre Dame Law School.
Before entering our novitiate, he worked at Fordham Law School.
Fr. Ben met the Paulist Fathers by attending daily Mass at our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.
He was ordained a priest on May 17, 2025.
In his first priestly assignment, Fr. Ben is associate director of the University Catholic Center at UCLA in Los Angeles.
In July, 2025, the Diocese of Oakland shared an article about Fr. Ben entitled "New Paulist Priest's Concord Connection."
playlist tool in the video player.In May, 2025, in anticipation of his priestly ordination, then-Deacon Ben was a guest on our podcat Deacons Pod.:
In July, 2024, Ben spoke with Mike Hayes for our "Five Questions With a Paulist" series:
Glimpses of Ben "signing in" to our novitiate in 2019:
