Father Paul Nord, OSB, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, began his ministry as pastor of St. Boniface and St. Meinrad parishes in Spencer County on September 29, 2025.
He succeeds Father Anthony Vinson, OSB, who served as pastor for 16 years. He awaits his next assignment at Saint Meinrad Archabbey. He continues as board chair of the National Fund for Catholic Religious Vocations, chaplain at Saint Xavier High School in Louisville, KY, and a member of the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council.
Father Paul has been a Benedictine monk since 2002, and was ordained priest in 2007. After graduating in 1997 from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, he worked as a chemical engineer in Terre Haute, IN, and Chicago before beginning priesthood formation at Saint Meinrad in 1999. He earned his Master of Arts in 2001 and his Master of Divinity in 2005.
At Saint Meinrad, he served as assistant director and then acting director of Supervised Ministry for the seminarians from 2005 to 2008. In 2013, Father Paul graduated with a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
As a part of this program, he also studied for one semester at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is a member of the Catholic Biblical Association. He has varying degrees of familiarity with Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and German languages.
Since 2016, he has taught Sacred Scripture at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. From 2020 to 2025, Father Paul was also a formation dean, accompanying priesthood candidates at Saint Meinrad in their human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral formation.
Father Paul grew up attending St. Joseph Church in Dale. He graduated from Southridge High School in Huntingburg in 1993. Since 1844 his family has lived in the local area near Saint Meinrad, attending parishes served by the monks of Saint Meinrad and the Benedictine sisters of Ferdinand. He has had family members in both Benedictine monastic communities.
Father Paul’s parents are Joseph and Margaret Nord, who live west of St. Henry. He has one brother, one sister, four nephews, and four nieces. Father Paul played high school and college tennis.
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