LAKE CHARLES -- Bishop Glen John Provost was the presiding prelate on Saturday, June 30, at the Mass of Ordination for Reverend Samuel Orsot as a priest for the Diocese of Lake Charles as well as the ordination of a transitional deacon – Deacon Michael Caraway - in the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.

LAKE CHARLES — CHRISTUS St. Patrick Health System has partnered with the Diocese of Lake Charles Office of Catholic Schools to provide workplace wellness services to their school employees.

Bishop Provost has sent the following letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lake Charles on the important contribution of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.   He also felt that the Catholic faithful of the Diocese would be interested in reading this reflection and its message.

NEW ORLEANS – Two seminarians of the Diocese of Lake Charles, Deacon Samuel John Orsot and William Watkins Fruge, were awarded graduate degrees from Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology during the school’s 69th Commencement Exercise on May 10. Deacon Orsot earned a Master of Divinity Cum Laude and Fruge was awarded a Master of Arts (Philosophy for Theological Studies) Summa Cum Laude.

LAKE CHARLES -– CHRISTUS St. Patrick Hospital President and Chief Executive Officer, Donald Lloyd II was recently named Distinguished Alumni of the Year at the Annual Lander University Alumni Association 2018 Awards Luncheon and Alumni Weekend in Greenwood, South Carolina.