Bio

• CURRENT ASSIGNMENT — Fr. Paul Kongnyuy is the Parochial Vicar / Associate at Resurrection/St. Paul Church and School in Ellicott City. As a priest, he sees his primary role as a teacher and evangelizer who shares the word of God at every opportunity.
• HIS CALLING — He knew he wanted to be a priest since he was about 13 or 14. His future came to him as a vision. A man he didn’t know grabbed his arm and declared, “He will be a great priest.” Since that day, he always longed for this and prayed for it.  He said. “I am not becoming a priest because I want to live an easy life. I want to be a priest because I want to serve people.”
• MUSICIAN — Fr. Paul Kongnyuy plays the piano to relax and process the day. To him, the white keys represent happiness and the black keys, sadness; together, they make the music of life. “When I talk to God, I play mostly the white keys… The day cannot pass without me singing. When I play music, I feel inner peace and when you sing, you pray twice.”  Fr. Paul Kongnyuy plays the piano only for himself and God, but when he preaches, he often begins his homilies with a song.
• HIS FORMATION & FAMILY — Fr. Paul spent his diaconate year at the suburban Baltimore parish, which is the final step in his journey to priesthood. He moved from his home in Cameroon, West Africa to the United States in 2017 to complete seminary through a partnership between the Archbishop of Baltimore and the bishop of the Diocese of Kumbo. He came along with his identical twin brother, Father Peter Kiamo-oh, who was also ordained a priest and serves as associate pastor at St. Ignatius in Hickory.
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