REVEREND PAT TRAVERS

OUR PASTOR

Father Pat Travers is the pastor of Saint Paul the Apostle Catholic Church in Juneau, Alaska. He also serves as vicar general and judicial vicar of the Catholic Diocese of Juneau.

After graduating from Georgetown University in 1973 and Harvard University Law School in 1976, Father Pat practiced law for almost eleven years as an attorney for the Federal Government in Washington DC and Alaska. He then entered the seminary, and received degrees in theology and canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Since ordination to the priesthood in July 1993, he has served at parishes in Juneau, Petersburg, and Ketchikan, Alaska, as well as in the diocesan chancery. Father Pat has been pastor of Saint Paul’s since November 2007.

Father Pat also serves as a chaplain in the United States Air Force Reserve. He was deployed to Iraq in 2004, to the Persian Gulf in 2007, and to Afghanistan in 2009-2010.