Rev. Patricia Catalano

Rev. Patricia Catalano was born in Bogotá, Colombia, South America. From an early age, she was exposed to a bilingual and bicultural environment. She studied languages at the Universidad de los Andes and translation and simultaneous interpretation at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogotá turning her love for languages and communication into a career of 30+ years that has taken her around the world. In 1990 Patricia was invited as visiting professor by the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS). Her initial one-year commitment became a permanent situation when, the following year, she was asked to stay on as assistant professor. She taught full-time until 1994 when she left to continue her free-lance career but has maintained her ties with MIIS up to date, teaching sporadically over the years. She has a daughter and a grandson. In the mid-90’s, she came to All Saints Carmel drawn by the newspaper columns written by former rector Carl Hansen. She reconnected with the deep spiritual roots of her childhood and youth and soon after being received in the Episcopal Church felt a calling to the ordained ministry. In 2005, she graduated with a Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley and was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests in 2006. She served for two years at St. Bede’s Church in Menlo Park and returned to All Saints during the interim period in October of 2006. Her vision of ministry is one of a loving community of faith centered around an ever-growing awareness of the presence of God-in-Christ in their midst founded on prayer and sacramental worship, strengthened by lively teaching and preaching and supported by devoted pastors.

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