3700 W 119th Street, Leawood, KS 66209

Father Francis Hund

Pastor

“Life is a song.  God’s love is the music.”

Father Francis was born July 31st, 1956 in Paxico, Kansas and is the oldest of Wildred and Margaret Hund's eight children. He graduated from Paxico High School in 1974 and received a bachelor's degree from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas in 1978, where he majored in music with a focus on organ. Although he had considered a vocation to the priesthood, he hadn't shared his thoughts with his parents. They thought he would be a music teacher until they read his career choice printed in his senior organ recital program.

He was selected to do his seminary studies in Rome at the North American College and was ordained to the priesthood at his home parish in Paxico in 1982. He served as associate pastor at four Shawnee Mission parishes, Queen of the Holy Rosary, Cure of Ars, St. Joseph and Holy Trinity before entering a graduate program in the liturgical studies at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Returning in 1990 he served three rural parishes at Burlington, Waverly and Westphalia, KS and was campus minister at Washburn in Topeka.

In 1992, Fr. Francis was appointed pastor of St. Theresa's in Perry and also St. Aloysius in Meriden (1993). In addition to pastoring those two parishes, he was appointed Director of the Archdiocesan Office of Liturgy and Worship, a position he held for 9 years prior to his appointment as pastor to Good Shepherd, Shawnee in 2001.

His family currently includes his mother, two brothers, five sisters, in-laws and 25 nieces and nephews.