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Padre Fernando Molina
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Father Fernando Molina-Restrepo was born on December 12, 1961, in Anserma-Caldas, Colombia, South America, the second of eight children of Maria Enoe Restrepo and Gildardo Luis Molina. His primary education took place in Risaralda-Caldas and he completed high school in Anserma-Caldas in 1980. Following high school he served for one year in the army in Colombia.
Before Fr. Fernando entered the priesthood, he held a variety of positions including growing coffee in the mountains of Colombia. After completing military service, he moved to Bogotá in 1982. where he worked in radio communications for a major oil company until 1987 and also began a degree course in economics at the Military University of Colombia.
He became a missionary in México during the fall of 1987 and remained there for almost two years with a religious community. In 1992, due to several events in his life, including his father’s death, he left the seminary. Then in 1993 he went to England to study English.
In February 1994 soon after arriving in the U.S., Fr. Fernando was accepted as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He served for six months in pastoral ministry at Our Lady of the Americas in Doraville, prior to beginning theological studies. It was in January 1995 that he began his studies at Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and he was ordained as a deacon on the first of July in 1998 at the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta.
He received two master’s degrees from Saint Vincent’s: in Religious Education and in Divinity, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Atlanta on June 12, 1999 at Saint Catherine of Sienna in Kennesaw.
In June 2005, he began his present assignment as Administrator of Our Lady of The Americas Catholic Mission, serving a large Hispanic community. Here he faces the challenge of working toward the eventual construction of a new sanctuary for the mission.
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