Priests Throughout the Years

The following is a list of our pastors and their associates who have served at St. Patrick since our beginning.  

Missionaries to Kokomo Mission Parish
1859-1869
Rev. George Hamilton (Built 1st Mission)
Rev. Bernard Joseph Force
Rev. Bernard Kroeger
Rev. Lawrence Lamoor
Rev. Theodore Borg
Rev. Simon Siegrist
N.B. With the exception of Fr. Hamilton, all missionaries were born in Germany.

Father Patrick Frawley
First Resident Pastor: 1869-1871

Father J.H. O’Brien
Second Resident Pastor: 1871-1872

Father John Grogan
Third Resident Pastor: 1872-1873

Father Francis Lordemann
Fourth Resident Pastor: 1873-1910
Associates to Fr. Lordemann
Rev. John Steger – 1906, Rev. W.T. Flaherty – 1908.

Father Robert Pratt
Fifth Resident Pastor: 1910-1929
Associates to Fr. Pratt
Rev. Angermaier – 1910, Rev. vanRie – 1910, Rev. Theodore Hammes – 1912,
Rev. Edward Werling – 1917, Rev. Clifford Reed – 1918, Rev. Joseph Suelzer – 1920,
Rev. John Schall – 1921, Rev. William Ehrman – 1922, Rev. Joseph Hennes – 1928.

Monsignor Robert Halpin
Sixth Resident Pastor: 1929-1949
Associates to Msgr. Halpin
Rev. George Derrick – 1929, Rev. Francis Quinn – 1934, Rev. John Frawley – 1936,
Rev. Robert Sorg – 1939, Rev. Frederick Schrader – 1945, Rev. R.J. Arthur – 1948.

Monsignor Leo A. Breitenbach
Seventh Resident Pastor: 1949-1965
Associates to Msgr. Breitenbach
Rev. Bernard Morgan – 1952, Rev. John Schultz – 1957, Rev. Donald Gross – 1959,
Rev. Richard Villa – 1961. Rev. Richard Villa acted as Adminstrator after the death of Msgr. Brietenbach. Rev. Paul Dehner was his Assistant.

Monsignor Maurice D. Foley
Eighth Resident Pastor: 1965-1969
Associates to Msgr. Foley
Rev. Francis Craven – 1966, Rev. Joseph Zelenka – 1968.

Monsignor Arthur A. Sego
Ninth Resident Pastor: 1969-1984
Assocates to Msgr. Sego
Rev. Joseph Zelenka – 1968-1970, Rev. Joseph Clauss – 1970, Rev. John Kiefer – 1971, Rev. Bernard Lutkenhoff – 1972, Rev. John Zahn – 1972, Rev. Rick Tucker – 1978, Rev. George Plaster – 1980-1982, Rev. Craig Davis – 1982, Rev. Douglas McCormack – 1983.

Father Maurice Miller
Tenth Resident Pastor: 1984-1994
Associates to Fr. Miller
Rev. Patrick Courtney – 1987, Rev. Virgil Barker – 1989

Father Francis Kilcline
Eleventh Resident Pastor: 1994-2002
Associates to Fr. Kilcline
Rev. Alan Funk – 1993, Rev. Jack Trippel – 1995, Rev. Theodore Dudzinski – 1997

Father Theodore C. Dudzinski, II
Twelfth Resident Pastor: 2002 – 2013
Associates to Fr. Dudzinski
Rev. Thomas Obiatuegwu – 2004 – 2009, Rev. Randy Soto – 2005, Rev. Andrew Dudzinski – 2006, Rev. Eric Underwood – 2006, Rev. David Hasser – 2007, Rev. Dan Duff –2009-2010, Rev. David Huemmer 2010-2013, Rev. Joseph Aytona 2010-2011, Rev. Anthony Rowland 2011-2013, Rev. Joshua Bennett – 2011-2013.

Father Michael J. McKinley
Thirteenth Resident Pastor: 2013 – 2016
Associates to Fr. McKinley
Rev. Anthony Rowland 2013-2014, Rev. Raymond Akeriwe 2014

Father David Hasser
Parochial Administrator: 2016 – 2017
Associates to Fr. Hasser
Rev. David Huemmer 2016-2017

Father Brian Dudzinski
Fourteenth Resident Pastor: 2017 – 2020
Associates to Fr. Dudzinski
Rev. David Huemmer 2017

Father Christopher Shocklee
Fifteenth Resident Pastor:  2020 - Present
Associates to Fr. Shocklee
Fr. Elliot Zak 2020-2023, Fr. Stephen Duquaine 2020-2023
Fr. Peter Vanderkolk 2023-present, Fr. Kyle Neterer 2023 - present