My name is Fr. Mark Ouma, ordained on May 20th of this year. I was born in Kenya, Africa. My childhood was formed by education in a parochial school founded by Mill Hill Missionaries from Europe.  

     I came to the U.S in 1993 to continue college education. I lived with my maternal uncle in Peekskill, and later in Yorktown Heights, New York. During the time, I went to school part time at Westchester Community College and worked full time as a direct care aid to mentally challenged adults at United Cerebral Palsy Association of New York. I transferred to University of Kentucky in 1998, from where I graduated in 2001.

     After a three and half years formation and discerning out of Claretian Missionary Order in 2007, I slowly discerned a call to diocesan priesthood. I was accepted back into the seminary in August of 2013. I graduated in May of 2017 and was shortly thereafter ordained to the priesthood. I have been assigned to the Cathedral ever since. Please keep me in your prayers.