Pastor’s Bio

Fr. Young was born on March 21st, 1969 and raised in Newark, Delaware as the youngest of seven children. After high school he fulfilled a dream by hiking the entire 2,166 mile long Appalachian Trail, stretching from Georgia to Maine. He completed the six month trek in 1990. Father Young then attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy with a Minor in Theology.

After finishing his undergraduate degree, he lived with his sister Pam and her family in Gaithersburg, Maryland. He bought tools and a truck and worked as a carpenter for four years doing mostly residential remodeling in Montgomery County.

In 1997, he entered the Seminary and studied for one year at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, one year at St. John Vianney Seminary in Denver, Colorado, and completed his last three years of of study for the priesthood at Catholic University. He was ordained on May 24th, 2003.

After ordination, Fr. Young worked as an associate priest for three years at St. Mary of the Mills in Laurel, Maryland, where he was also chaplain to St. Vincent Pallotti High School. He then served for two years as an associate priest at St. Bartholomew’s in Bethesda, Maryland. He served as Pastor of St. Mary’s in Bryantown Maryland from June of 2008 through July of 2009.  He became Pastor of Our Lady’s Church at Medley’s Neck on July 15^th, 2009.  Father Young also serves as co-chaplain of St. Mary’s Ryken High School in Leonardtown, Maryland.

Father Young enjoys working on cars, canoeing and fishing. He also enjoys watching the Orioles and NASCAR (his driver is Kyle Busch). He loves nature and, most especially, birds. Fr. Young has played a lot of sports throughout his life, including baseball and lacrosse, and was a captain of the varsity wrestling team in high school.

Below is a photo from Father Young’s Ordination to the Priesthood by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick on May 24th, 2003.