Deacon Chris Lawton, C.S.P.
Deacon Chris Lawton, C.S.P.

Native Place: Oconomowoc, WI

Entered Novitiate: August 25, 2018

First Promises: September 6, 2019

Final Promises: September 8, 2023

Diaconate Ordination: September 9, 2023


Paulist Deacon Chris Lawton is a native of Wisconsin.

He earned his undergraduate degree at Harvard University where he studied biochemical sciences.

He then earned his medical degree at Columbia University in New York City.

During his years in New York, he was a resident at New York Presbyterian Hospital and a fellow at Mt. Sinai Hospital.

Chris then returned to the Milwaukee area where he was an attending physician and assistant professor of medicine in palliative care at the Medical College of Wisconsin.

Chris met the Paulist Fathers during his years as a parishioner and ministry team member at our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle in New York City.


2019 Promises Mass
September 6, 2019

St. Joseph's Seminary, Washington, D.C.


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Chris Lawton (right) "signs in" as a Paulist novice during a Mass on August 25, 2018, in the chapel of St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C.