A brilliant songwriter, musician, speaker and worship leader, Chris Padgett travels around the world giving talks, missions and concerts. He holds a master’s in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, and has begun doctoral work in Marian studies at the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio.

One of the most effective champions of family life in the church today, Chris has been married to his high school sweetheart for more than 20 years and has nine children. They live in Steubenville.

Liam Cary was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1947, the first of John and Patricia Cary's four children. He entered Mount Angel Seminary in 1961, graduating from high school there in 1965 and from college in 1969.  After a year of theology at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, in 1970 he took a leave of absence that lasted eighteen years.  In that time he spent three years in a Chicago legal aid office as a VISTA volunteer, studied Spanish for a summer in Mexico, worked at a farm-worker medical clinic in California, and painted houses in Portland and Eugene.  Involvement in parish ministry at St. Mary's in Eugene led him back to the seminary in 1988. 
He was sent to the North American College in Rome, where he received a Licentiate in Moral Theology from the Gregorian University in 1992, the year he was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon on September 5. Throughout his priesthood Bishop Cary has been involved in Hispanic ministry.  Pope Benedict XVI named Father Cary, pastor of St. Mary Church in Eugene, Oregon, as Bishop of the Diocese of Baker on May 18, 2012. There are 36 parishes and 23 missions in the Diocese of Baker.

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