Father Patrick Tuttle

Father Patrick Tuttle, OFM
Pastor
friarpriest@gmail.com


“I like to observe our students discover the potential they have to grow and become aware of the gifts God has given them. I’ve also learned to respect the experience of the Black community here in Greenville.  I’m so surprised at how little people know about Roman Catholicism here, and how healing a cold glass of lemonade or tea on a porch can be. No agenda, just tea and porch and people.”

 
Serving St. Anthony’s since: 2005

Previous work experience:

Two years in campus ministry at Siena College, Albany, NY.

Two years of campus ministry and religion teacher at St. Bonaventure University in NY.

Seven years of ministry in Durham, NC: death row, parish, school, Duke University Medical Center Chaplain, Duke graduate Divinity School instructor in spirituality and hagiography.

Education:

Bachelor of Arts in Social Work, Siena College, Albany, NY

Master of Divinity, Washington Theological Union and Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Certificates of advanced graduate study in pastoral counseling the adolescent, family and marriage

Hometown: Born in Hartford, CT; raised in Marlborough, CT

Good times: Surfing; deejaying; and serving as a handyman—building/fixing things.