Friday, May 13, 2022, 11:45 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

Fr. Joseph Roesch, MIC
Vicar General, Rome, Italy

Fr. Joseph G. Roesch, MIC, grew up on Staten Island, New York, the second oldest of five children in a devoted Catholic family. Before joining the Marians, he worked as an actor for a couple of years after college.

He attended St. Joseph's University in Philadelphia and received a B.A. in English in 1982, with a special concentration on Drama and Theatre and a Minor in Fine Arts. He entered the Congregation in 1986 and was ordained in 1992. Fr. Joe attended the Catholic University of America and earned an M.A, in Theology in 1991. He earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) in 2009 from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies in Marriage and the Family.

Through the years, he has worked in a Marian parish in North Carolina, at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy, as a formation director and he has promoted the Divine Mercy on EWTN and through various books and media. In 2005, he was elected to serve on the General Council of the Marians in Rome were he continues to serve today as the Congregation’s Vicar General. His work has brought him all over the world to visit the Marians where they live and work and to help set up new missions.

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