St. Patrick’s Seminary
320 Middlefield Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
(650) 325-5621
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Rev. Geronimo (Jerome) Magat, S.T.D.
Vice Rector / Director of Operations / Master of Divinity Program Coordinator / Associate Professor of Moral Theology
Bio
Ordained in 2002 for the Catholic Diocese of Arlington (Virginia), Fr. Magat serves as Vice-Rector of the seminary, Director for the M.Div. Program, and as professor of moral theology, liturgy, and homiletics. Fr. Magat has worked in seminary formation for over 12 years, having served on four different seminary faculties. In 2023, Fr. Magat garnered the Joseph Koterski, SJ Fellowship as a new member of the Academy Catholic Theology, based in his native Washington, D.C. He also serves as President of the Board of Directors of the Guadalupe Free Clinic of Colonial Beach, the Arlington Diocese’s first free medical clinic for the poor, which he founded in 2005.
Selected Publications
“Recognizing the Unrecognized: Pacem in Terris and the Human Right to Immigrate in a World of Nation-State Dominance” (Dissertation, 2021)
Honoring the Covenant: Daily Mass Gospel Meditations for Busy Married Couples, 2023
Education
S.Th.D., summa cum laude, Pontifical Lateran University (Accademia Alfonsiana), Rome, 2021
S.T.L., summa cum laude, Pontifical Lateran University (Accademia Alfonsiana), Rome, 2019
M.A., summa cum laude, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Emmitsburg, MD, 2002
M.Div., summa cum laude, Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and University, Emmitsburg, MD, 2002
B.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1995
jerome.magat@stpsu.edu
