Fr. DuPré is a native of Carencro.  He graduated from the theologate program at the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Toronto, Canada with a Master’s Degree in Thomistic Thought and was ordained to the Roman Catholic priesthood for the Diocese of Lafayette on June 14, 2014.  He served in New Iberia, Our Lady of Wisdom on the campus of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and Kaplan before becoming the current pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church and St. Louis Mission Chapel in Parks, LA on October 22nd, 2018.