General Information
Reverend Father
Lam T. Le
Lam T. Le was born on September 5, 1975 in Vietnam and lived there for sixteen years. Together with his family, he immigrated to the United States of America and settled in Holland, Michigan in May, 1991.
He received his high school education from Holland High School. During his years in high school, Lam experienced more deeply God’s calling toward the priesthood. He decided to respond to the Lord’s call by entering the program of priestly formation of the Diocese of Grand Rapids.
In the fall of 1995, shortly after graduation from high school, Lam began his priestly formation at Christopher House and pursued his first two years of undergraduate studies at Aquinas College with a major in mathematics. He then completed a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. While there, he continued his priestly formation at Theological College, the University’s seminary under the care of the Priests of the Society of Saint Sulpice.
During the Great Jubilee 2000, Lam was sent to Rome to begin his theological studies, the final step in preparation for the priesthood. While in Rome, he lived at the Pontifical North American College, the American Catholic Seminary in Rome.
In the spring of 2003, Lam completed a Bachelor’s Degree in Sacred Theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He was ordained to the transitional diaconate on July 12, 2003 at his home parish, St. Francis de Sales in Holland, Michigan, by then Coadjutor Bishop Kevin M. Britt. Serving as a deacon at St. Pius X in Grandville for the rest of the summer, he then returned to Rome to complete a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He was ordained a priest, on July 10, 2004, at the Cathedral of St. Andrew, by the Most Revered Robert J. Rose, Bishop Emeritus of Grand Rapids.
Shortly after his ordination, he was appointed the Parochial Vicar at Holy Family Parish, Caledonia, Michigan. Then, effective July 1, 2006 he was appointed Pastor of St. Mary’s Parish and St. Paul Campus Parish in Big Rapids, Michigan. Besides being a pastor, Father Lam occasionally teaches in the Department of Theology at Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, Michigan.