![]() ![]() He noted that this first sense of his vocation was likely influenced by his great-uncle, Father Robert Emmet Fitzpatrick, a priest of the Diocese of Gaylord, Mich. "The essay was about what we wanted to be when we grew up, and I wrote, 'I think I want to be a priest.' I'll never forget because my teacher said, 'What? That's so boring! Don't you want to do something exciting like be a doctor or a fireman?' And I said, 'No, I think I want to be a priest.'" "I was in first grade at the public school, and we were writing an essay for Open House," he said. It was there he first realized God was calling him to the priesthood. The family soon after relocated to Wilmington, to live closer to his father's extended family in West Lynn. When Archbishop Russell was five, the family moved to Malden, where his sister Kathleen was born. My mother told me she said a very fervent prayer to God who heard her prayer and kept me alive." "I looked healthy at birth, but within a day or two I kept losing weight. "My mom had lost two babies before me - a boy and a girl - and I was born six weeks early," he said. He lived in Shelbourne Falls until he was five years old. to Isabelle Fitzpatrick and the late Thaddeus Russell. I was ordained a deacon and a priest at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, so I felt I needed to come back here to be ordained bishop and become apostolic nuncio."īishop Russell was born on in Greenfield, Mass. This is my home," he continued, his voice full of emotion. "But I am a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston. Paul Outside the Walls, or in Michigan where most of my family and friends live." I could also have been ordained at the Church of St. "That was offered to me as a possibility. "When the pope appoints someone apostolic nuncio and simultaneously appoints them bishop, many are ordained by the Holy Father at St. On June 3, Bishop Russell returned to the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston - the place where 28 years ago he was ordained to the priesthood - to be ordained archbishop. "That's the way God has worked with me, I guess." "I find that my life is a circle - I keep coming back to a point where I was before, but in a different way," mused Archishop Paul Fitzpatrick Russell, newly appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan. ![]() Archbishop Russell's ordination an historic moment for Boston Archdiocese ![]()
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