Please join us in welcoming Fr. Bill Boteler to the Bay Area.  He will be joining our team and will be involved in a variety of mission education and promotion activities.  He will live at our residence in Los Altos.  Since he arrived a few weeks ago, he's already been busy doing mission appeals in parishes.

 

Fr. Boteler was born in Baltimore, MD.  He studied accounting, taught Finance, and was employed at Black and Decker as a supervisor of Data Processing. He entered the Maryknoll seminary at age 33.  After ordination, Fr. was assigned to Bolivia where he served for 16 years, eight of which he served as Pastor of San Pedro in La Paz where he founded the Family Life Center, the first for the Archdiocese and later in several other dioceses.   

 

Following his election as Superior General of Maryknoll, Fr. Bill also served in El Salvador where he labored successfully to establish a viable parish community which had been deeply divided by the trauma of a long civil war.  Since June 2000, he has served in the U.S. in Los Angeles and Washington D.C.