Fr. Bill arrived in Durham in 2008 and has been a professed friar since 1990. Since ordination in 1995 he has worked in three parishes on the East Coast with large Hispanic populations. Bill is a mid-Hudson Valley New York native. Born in 1965 into an Irish family, he is the oldest of six brothers and sisters. He first met the friars in college at Saint Bonaventure University in Western New York. Parish life at Immaculate Conception Church reminds him of the growth and diversity of the Early Church recounted in the Acts of the Apostles.

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Fr. Lawrence Hayes hails from Long Island, N.Y. He has been a professed Franciscan Friar since 1984 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1989. For the past 22 years he has served at three multicultural Franciscan parishes of Holy Name Province in Camden, NJ, Wilimington, DE, and Silver Spring, MD. In January 2011, in addition to being assigned to Immaculate Conception, he was elected to a three-year term on the Provincial Council. Fr. Larry is happy to join the vibrant and diverse family and ministry of IC.

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