Fr. Paul Hedman serves as the parish priest of Sacred Heart and provides spiritual leadership and canonical and administrative oversight of Sacred Heart School. Fr. Hedman grew up in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, and his family attended St. Raphael’s in Crystal. Before seminary he briefly attended Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, studying Computer Science. He transferred to St. John Vianney College Seminary at the University of St. Thomas, graduating in 2016 with a degree in philosophy and computer science. He received his M.Div from Saint Paul Seminary and was ordained for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul & Minneapolis in 2020.
After ordination, he served as associate pastor at St. Peter’s in Forest Lake from 2020 to 2023 and Epiphany in Coon Rapids from 2023 to 2026. At both parishes, he was heavily involved in the parish schools; at St. Peter’s, he taught 6th grade religion and at Epiphany he taught 6th grade history.
In 2025, he was commissioned as an officer in the Minnesota Army National Guard, where he serves part-time as a battalion chaplain and has received awards for excellence in communication and state active duty service.
Fr. Hedman was assigned to Sacred Heart in summer of 2026.