Native Place: Oconomowoc, WI
Entered Novitiate: August 25, 2018
First Promises: September 6, 2019
Final Promises: September 8, 2023
Diaconate Ordination: September 9, 2023
Priestly Ordination: May 18, 2024
First Mass of Thanksgiving: May 19, 2024
Read Fr. Chris's full vocation story at beapaulist.org
Paulist Fr. Chris Lawton is a native of Wisconsin.
He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University where he studied biochemical sciences.
He then earned his medical degree at Columbia University in New York City.
During his years in New York, he was a resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital and a fellow at Mt. Sinai Hospital.
He then returned to the Milwaukee area where he was an attending physician and assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
He met the Paulist Fathers during his years as a parishioner and ministry team member at our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.
In his first priestly assignment, he is serving as an associate pastor of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle.
playlist tool in the video player.Fr. Chris on Embracing Weakness:
Podcast: Deacons Pod
April 23, 2024
Feature: "Five Questions with Paulist Seminarian Chris Lawton"
August 22, 2023
Chris Lawton (right) "signs in" as a Paulist novice during a Mass on August 25, 2018, in the chapel of St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C.