Fr. Charles Hough IV

A native of the Fort Worth area, Father Hough received his Masters of Divinity from Nashotah House Theological Seminary in the Spring of 2007 and was ordained in the Episcopal Church in September of 2007.  He served as Curate to Saint Mark's Episcopal Church in Arlington, Texas and later as Rector of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Gainesville, Texas. He resigned from that position in June of 2011 to be received into the Catholic Church by the Most Reverend Kevin Vann, Bishop of Forth Worth.  

In the interim he worked with adult religious education and RCIA at Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton in Keller, Texas. He successfully completed the formation process and his rescript, or permission from the Vatican, to be ordained a Catholic priest for the Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in March 2012. He was ordained on June 30, 2012, the Feast of the First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church, by Bishop Vann.

Father Hough was then installed as Rector of Our Lady of Walsingham by Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson on July 1, 2012.  He later was named as Pastor of the Cathedral and Rector of the Shrine in 2016 by the Most Rev. Steven Lopes, Bishop of the Ordinariate.  Fr. Hough is married.  He and his wife, Lindsay, both attended Texas A&M University and are blessed with two sons and a daughter.