As you know, on July 1, 2016, Fr. Jim Laughlin became the pastor of our St. John-St. Paul Collaborative.
We warmly welcome Fr. Jim to Wellesley!
Father Jim Laughlin was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston in 1991. He served as a parochial vicar at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Braintree and St. Eulalia Parish in Winchester before becoming pastor of St. Ann Parish in Wayland in 2006. He is a canon lawyer and served as a judge of the Metropolitan Tribunal before his arrival in Wayland. In 2008, he became pastor of St. Zepherin Parish, serving Wayland and Natick, in addition to his role as pastor of St. Ann’s. On January 1, 2011, the two parishes merged to form Good Shepherd Parish and Fr. Jim was appointed as its first pastor. He is an adjunct faculty member at the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization at St. John Seminary. He has been active in prison ministry at MCI-Framingham since 1989. Fr. Jim has an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College (1985), where he majored in Russian Language and Literature. He also studied at Leningrad State University. He earned an M.Div. from St. John Seminary in Boston and a J.C.L. from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
–photo and text courtesy of the Good Shepherd Parish website
