30 new students, are expected to enter St. John's Seminary to begin the 2015-16 academic year. This will bring the total number of students up to 108, the most in over 10 years. New students are studying for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Dioceses of Orange, Fresno. Monterey and San Diego and the Maronite Eparchy of Our Lady of Mt. Lebanon of Los Angeles....
On September 12, 2015, St. John’s Seminary will conclude a year-long celebration of its 75th Aniversary with a Gala Dinner at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Those to be honored as Distinguished Alumni will be Msgr. Kevin Kostelnik, pastor of the cathedral and a great supporter of vocations with 4 seminarians, three of whom are students at St. John’s. Msgr. Craig Cox, pastor of Our La...
This Summer, Deacon David Otto was ordained for the Dioces of Orange on June 27. Deacon Gregorio Hidalgo was ordained for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles on July 11 in his home of Toledo, Spain. On August 15, Deacons Jeffrey Baker, Joshua Diener, Luis Espinoza, Paolo Garcia, Anthony Garcias, Matthew Murphy, Ethan Southard and Albert Van der Woerd were ordained for service in the Archdiocese of Los ...
In July of 2015, St. John's Seminary welcomed three new members of our resident faculty, Fr. Slawomir Szkredka, Fr. Marco Durazo and Fr. Tim Klosterman, all priests of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Fr. Slowomir has just finished writing his thesis for his doctorate in New Testament Studies from the Biblicum in Rome. Fr. Marco Durazo comes to us after completing his doctoral work at Rome’s Ange...