Peter Leslie Smith

Peter Smith was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, on February 8, 1958, and was educated in the local schools.

[2] Smith was ordained a priest at St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception for the Archdiocese of Portland on June 9, 2001, by Archbishop John Vlazny.

He took a leave of absence from the archdiocese in 2004 to study at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he received a Licentiate of Canon Law in 2006.

He was ordained in St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland on April 29, 2014, by Archbishop Alexander Sample.

Archbishop Emeritus John Vlazny and Bishop Liam Cary were the principal co-consecrators.