Father Julien Esse, SMA
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Current assignment: Parochial Vicar of St. Matthew, Champaign and St. Boniface, Seymour (2/16/2023).
Directory: St. Boniface, Seymour
Father Andru O’Brien
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Birthday: May 13, 1992
Ordained: May 26, 2018
Parochial Vicar of St. Jude, Peoria (2018). While remaining Parochial Vicar of St. Jude, Peoria; Parochial Vicar of St. Mary of the Woods, Princeville (2018). Parochial Vicar of St. Jude, Peoria (2019).
Current assignment: Parochial Vicar of St. Mathew, Champaign; St. Boniface, Seymour; and Chaplain at The High School of St. Thomas More, Champaign (2021).
Monsignor Stanley L. Deptula
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msgrdeptula@stmatt.net
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Born: Belleville, New Jersey
Birthday: April 15, 1970
Ordained: May 25, 1996
Parochial Vicar of Sacred Heart, Moline (1996). Assistant Chaplain of St. John’s Newman Center, Champaign (1999). While remaining Assistant Chaplain of St. John’s Newman Center, Champaign; Associate Director of Vocations (1999). Pastor of St. Mary, Wenona and St. John the Baptist, Lostant (2002). While remaining pastor of St. Mary, Wenona and St. John the Baptist, Lostant; Administrator of St. Patrick, Minonk (2003). Vicar Forane of the Henry Vicariate (2003). Chaplain of Newman Foundation at Bradley University and Illinois Central College, Peoria; Director, Office of Divine Worship; Vice Chancellor, (2004). Director of College Ministry (2006). While remaining Director, Office of Divine Worship; Executive Director of the Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Cause (2008). Chaplain to His Holiness (2009). Rector of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria; Pastor of St. Bernard, Peoria; St. Peter, Peoria (2011). While remaining Vice Chancellor, Rector of the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Peoria and Pastor of St. Bernard, Peoria; Pastor of Sacred Heart, Peoria and St. Joseph Peoria; Director of Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation (2015).
Current assignment: Pastor of St. Matthew, Champaign and St. Boniface, Seymour (9/18/2018).
Father Joel Phelps
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fatherphelps@gmail.com
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Birthday: September 3, 1984
Ordained: May 26, 2012
Parochial Vicar of St. Patrick, Urbana and St. Mary, Champaign (2012). Parochial Vicar of Holy Cross, Mendota; St. Theresa, Earlville; and Sts. Peter and Paul in Peterstown (2015). Administrator of St. Malachy, Rantoul and St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Thomasboro (2017).
Current assignment: Pastor of St. Malachy, Rantoul; St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Thomasboro; Vicar Forane of the Champaign Vicariate (2018). Administrator of St. Matthew, Champaign and St. Boniface, Seymour (3/2023).
