The Catholic Cowboy Way

Fr. Bryce Lungren was blessed to grow up in a family with deep Wyoming roots. After graduating from high school in Worland, Wyoming, in 1998, he moved to Montana, where he worked in the world and grew in his Catholic Faith. In 2008, he entered the seminary, earning a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy at Mount Angel Seminary in St. Benedict, Oregon, and a Master of Divinity and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Cheyenne on the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 2018 and is the associate pastor of St. Matthew's Catholic Church and surrounding missions in Gillette, Wyoming.