Paulist Fr. Dat Tran is is the Rector and Pastor of the Cathedral of Saint Andrew, Director of the Catholic Information Center, and Superior of the Paulist Community in Grand Rapids, MI.
Fr. Dat was born in Vietnam. As a boy, he immigrated with his family to California. He earned his undergraduate degree at the University of California at Berkeley. It was there that Fr. Dat met the Paulist Fathers at Newman Hall - Holy Spirit Parish, the Catholic campus ministry at Berkeley.
He was ordained in May, 2011, by then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York at our mother church, the Church of St. Paul the Apostle.
In his first assignment, Fr. Dat served as associate pastor at St. Paul the Apostle Church in Los Angeles. After three years in that role, he returned to his alma mater to became associate pastor at Newman Hall-Holy Spirit Parish, the Paulist Fahters' campus ministry to the University of California, Berkeley. He served there from 2014 through 2016.
Fr. Dat then headed the Paulists' vocation office, serving from 2016 until 2022, as the director of vocations.
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