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Fr. Hans Olson was born in Portland, OR in 1957, the fourth of nine children, seven boys and 2 girls. He attended Our Lady of the Lake Church and School in Lake Oswego, Oregon. After his family moved to Edmonds, WA, Father Olson attended Holy Rosary Parish School and graduated from Edmonds High School. He entered St. Thomas Seminary in the fall of 1975 and transferred to the University of Idaho in 1977 and graduated from there in 1979 with a degree in Philosophy.
After completing his Masters of Divinity at the Washington Theological Union in Washington D.C., Fr. Olson was ordained at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, WA in June of 1983. He served as Associate at St. Alphonsus in Seattle, St. Luke in Shoreline and at Sacred Heart in Bellevue. He was then appointed Pastor of St. Rose de Viterbo in Longview WA where he served for seven years. Fr. Olson was appointed Pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Vancouver in 1996 which was his last assignment before coming to St. Mary Magdalen Parish/St. John Mission. According to St. Joseph’s website, Fr. Olson is known for successfully recruiting many young men to the seminary and for working Parochial Vicars unmercifully! He enjoys gardening, creating and collecting church art and working with wood. |
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Fr. Francis Thumbi is the 2nd child of thirteen with 7 surviving brothers and 3 sisters. He spent part of his childhood in Tanzania then moved to Loitokitok, at the border of Kenya and Tanzania, at the foot of Mt. Kilimanjaro. He attended St. Augustine Major Seminary studying philosophy, and St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Nairobi for Theological Studies. He was ordained Dec. 5, 1987.
He served as Asso. Pastor at St. Joseph’s Pro-Cathedral in Ngong, Kenya, and later as Bishop’s Secretary and Personal Assistant, Diocesan Communication Coordinator, Secretary to the Bishop’s Consultors and as a member of the Diocesan Finance Committee. His next assignment was Pastor of Kiserian Parish and Bishop’s Vicar. He received a Master’s Degree in Pastoral Theology from the State University in Vienna, Austria and then assisted in the Parish of St. Francis in Caen, France. He has also served for 2 years in the Archdiocese of Vienna, Austria at St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and later as Priest in Charge at St. Hilda’s Parish in in the Diocese of Hexham & New Castle in England. He returned to Kenya and was appointed Pastor of St. Mark in Lemek in Massai, Mara until 2007. His bishop then requested that he accept another appointment which necessitated moving to America and serving in a parish in the Archdiocese of Seattle, WA to liaise and coordinate Mission Appeals for his diocese back home in Kenya. Fr. Thumbi arrived in Seattle on Monday June 30 and concelebrated Mass with Fr. Olson on Tuesday, July 1, 2008. |
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