St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield welcomes new priest

PLAINFIELD – St. Mary Immaculate Parish in Plainfield has a new priest, Rev. David Mowry.

Mowry was born July 11, 1987 to Joan and Keith and was baptized on Oct. 25 of the same year. After a few years in Elmhurst and a move to the Washington D.C. area, his family returned to Illinois and settled in Glen Ellyn.

He attended parochial school at his home parish of St. Petronille and graduated from there in 2001. He began to discern a call to priesthood in his junior year at Glenbard West High School, and, in the fall of 2005, he entered St. John Vianney College Seminary at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Mowry graduated from the University of St. Thomas in 2009, and entered Mundelein Seminary in the fall of the same year. He was ordained to the diaconate on June 2, 2012, and served as a deacon at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Addison.

His ordination to the priesthood came on May 18, 2013, and in June of that year he began his assignment to Immaculate Conception in Elmhurst as associate pastor until 2016. His brother Trevor (26) serves as co-principal oboe for the United States Marine Band, and his sister Elizabeth (15) will be a sophomore at Glenbard West High School in the fall.