Fr. Stephen was born in Newport, Rhode Island on December 27, 1924. His parents were Anastasios and Angeliki Papadoulias from the island of Skiathos, in Greece. He graduated from Roger's High School in 1942 and he graduated from Holy Cross Seminary in 1946. He then went to Beaumont, Texas and Port Arthur, Texas and established a new parish in Beaumont, Texas. Graduation from St. Anselm's College was in 1962. And he then received a Master's of Education from Westfield State Teachers' College in June of 1968. Fr. Steve also attended Brown University in 1990, where he studied the Russian language. 

On October 19, 1947 he married Julia Georgeadys. They had three children:  Ernest, Nicholas and Angela. Ernest now resides in St. James, NY; Nicholas resides in Springfield, MA; and Angela resides in North Scituate, RI.  Fr. Stephen and Presbytera Julia have five grandchildren: Adam, Paul, Stephen, John and Kayla. 

Fr. Steve served the following parishes: Stamford, CT from 1947 to 1952; Saint George Cathedral in Manchester, New Hampshire from 1952 to 1957; St. George Cathedral in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1957 to 1984. Then he served part-time at St. Nicholas Church in Enfield, Connecticut, 1990.  

Fr. Steve served as secretary of the New England Clergy Federation and was president of the Theological School Alumni Association. He served on the Human Relations Commission in Springfield, Massachusetts and was also appointed as a Springfield Police Commissioner. He was a Red Cross Director and served on the boards of the Greek Theological School Alumni Association, Holy Cross Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, and Springfield Technical Community College. He was also a board member of the Hampden-Berkshire Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Association and was on the Metropolitan Board of the YMCA of Springfield, Massachusetts.

He spent many summers lobstering with his father, who was a fisherman. He loved and played football at Rogers High School in Newport, Rhode Island. Also, he was a great Red Sox baseball fan, not to mention an avid basketball fan. He actually loved most sports and was always asking: "What's the score?"  Fishing was a great favorite of his and he was known to spend a free day out on the ocean, going after bluefish or flounder or scup.

Fr. Steve had a quick wit and was never at a loss for a humorous saying or answer.  He always had the appropriate joke at the ready in whatever setting he might find himself.

Best of all, he had a beautiful singing voice and loved to sing anything from old Greek songs to popular tunes of the day, both Greek and English. When Fr. Steve was a teenager, he attended church every Sunday and he always went to stand with the chanter, thereby learning the entire liturgy before he went on to the seminary to become a priest. 

He was a very bright man, who had so much to offer the people around him and he was a person who never lost the desire to learn.