SW News: Columba Thomas, a medical doctor, has been ordained to the Catholic priesthood for the Dominican Province of St Joseph in the United States along with eight others.

The ordination ceremony took place at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC on Saturday, May 20. Columbus Bishop Earl K Fernandes presided over the ordination ceremony. He said to the newly ordained priests that each of them was a blessing to the Dominican order as well as the Church.


Columba Thomas, who was brought up in the state of Ohio, graduated from Yale School of Medicine in 2012. According to the Dominican Friars Foundation website, “He completed a Primary Care Residency and Chief Residency at Yale and attained board certification in Internal Medicine before joining the Province of St. Joseph.” Columba started his formation with the Order in 2016.



"The beautiful liturgies and powerful preaching of the Dominicans first drew me to the Order. Then I realized more and more that the Dominicans are uniquely positioned to effectively proclaim the Gospel and give witness to the faith in a very secularized world,” he says about his vocation call.
St Dominic is the founder of the Dominican Order, which is also known as the Order of Preachers. The Dominican Province of St Joseph is one of the four Dominican provinces in the United States of America.