Fr. Kevin Deeley grew up in Belmont, worshipping at Sacred Heart Parish in Watertown. He was ordained with Fr. Jerry Hogan in 1974. His priesthood assignments have included being a parochial vicar at St. Peter's, Dorchester, and at St. Mary's, Brookline. He was a chaplain at Matignon High School, Cambridge, and worked in the Clergy Personnel Office for the Archdiocese. For the past 16 years, he served as a U.S. Navy Chaplain, ministering to the Sailors and Marines and their families throughout the world and he also finished a temporary administrator assignment at St. Rafael Parish in Medford.