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Partners in Gospel is the strategic pastoral planning effort taking place across the Archdiocese of Seattle to re-invigorate and renew our local Catholic Church.

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Archbishop Etienne's Pastoral Letter on Partners in the Gospel

In Archbishop Etienne’s pastoral letter, Partners in the Gospel: A Pastoral Letter to the Priests and People of the Church in Western Washington, he addresses the changes in our archdiocese over the last 10 years, his vision for parish leadership and structure, and ways to measure parish health and vibrancy.  Read the letter:

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Renewing Parish Life

Partners in the Gospel is an archdiocesan-wide renewal effort to better support vibrant, sustainable, mission-focused parish communities across the entire Archdiocese of Seattle. Parish families, comprised of one or more parishes, will create new vision plans together for how to best carry out the mission of the Church helping others know the love and joy of Jesus Christ.

The pastor, parish leaders and parishioners will determine how the new parish family will use their gifts and talents to creatively serve the unique needs of their local community, which may include new outreach efforts, youth ministry, evangelization efforts and more.  

Partners in the Gospel - Prayer

One Parish Planning

On July 1, 2024, the 136 archdiocesan parishes became 60 parish families, with eight stand-alone parishes under the leadership of a pastor or pastoral coordinator. Each parish family is working together to articulate their gifts, their hopes for the future and to set a vision and plan for how they will re-invigorate parish life while forming one new canonical parish. See the full timeline below.

OPP Overview

Videos

July 2025: A Year of Partners in the Gospel

Watch Archbishop Etienne’s video in which he commemorates this one-year milestone and urges the faithful to fully participate in these next two years of discernment as parish families continue as they work toward becoming one parish.

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Partners in the Gospel Introduction Video

Watch the video to learn more about this important initiative.

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2025 Current Reality and One Parish Planning Process

Father Gary Lazzeroni and Caitlin Moulding provide an updated current reality report, followed by a detailed overview of the One Parish Planning process starting in 2025.

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Father Michael Dion, Pastor of St. Theresa and St. Vincent de Paul in Federal Way

Watch Father Dion share his thoughts about the Partners in the Gospel initiative.

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Learn more

After watching the videos above, learn more about Partners in the Gospel from the following resources.

Official appointments

On April 6, 2024, Archbishop Paul D. Etienne and the Priest Personnel Board released the Official Appointments, including pastors, parochial vicars and other assignments. 

Final parish families

On February 3, 2024, final parish families for the Archdiocese of Seattle were announced, after a year of careful planning and consultation.

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“Why is Partners in the Gospel necessary? I would simply say that with all of the changes that we're facing today, globally, culturally and within the church, it's very clear the status quo is no longer an option. It's very easy for us to just continue to keep doing the same thing and hoping that things will improve. That's not a strategy to make a difference.”

~ Archbishop Etienne