Rev. Michael Liliedahl

Bio

Although born in the bayous of Louisiana, Fr. Liliedahl grew up as the oldest of three children surrounded by the mountains, glaciers, and fjords of Southeast Alaska. After high school he served as a missionary across Canada with NET Ministries of Canada before entering the seminary for his home diocese of Juneau and being sent to Bishop White Seminary at Gonzaga University. Although he would leave formation after one year, he continued his studies at Gonzaga before moving to Massachusetts where he taught high school theology at a Catholic high school while simultaneously earning his Masters in Education through PACT Program at Providence College. After four more years of teaching high school in Washington DC and Marin County he entered formation as a seminarian for the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Ordained in 2017 he has served in a number of assignments in the Archdiocese including parochial vicar, high school chaplain, pastor, director of college campus ministry and faculty member at St. Patrick’s Seminary. He enjoys traveling the world, playing golf, and reading whatever his current literary obsession may be.