 Fr. Raymond Leo Lewis, OP
Raymond Lewis was born in San
Francisco in 1897 and baptized at St. Dominic’s Church. He attended Sacred Heart Convent school and then
Sacred Heart College prep and Saint Ignatius, all in San Francisco. After one year at St. Mary’s College in
Oakland he entered the novitiate and was simply professed in 1918. He was the third and last Lewis brother to enter the
Western Dominican Province.
After six years of study in Springfield, Kentucky and Washington, DC, he was
ordained by Archbishop E.J. Hanna in Menlo Park, California just before Christmas 1924.
His first assignment was in
the city of his childhood, in the parish where he was baptized: St. Dominic’s, San
Francisco. In fact, his first six assignments
were all to various St. Dominic’s: San Francisco, Benicia, Eagle Rock, San Francisco,
Eagle Rock and San Francisco. He became
pastor of St. Mary Magdalen’s in Berkeley in 1938.
In 1943 he was appointed Director of the Third Order which he continued in various
places for the next ten years. In 1954 he
began his final assignment, at St. Dominic’s in Eagle Rock. He died at 7:15 am on July 12, 1969 of cancer at
Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital. |
