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Fr.
Joseph Mary Sergott, OP
Fr. Joseph Sergott, OP
is the pastor of St. Thomas More Newman Center in Eugene, Oregon. As
a Catholic campus ministry, the Newman Center serves the University
of Oregon and higher education. Fr. Joseph is a catholic priest in
the Dominican Order, a religious order of men in the Catholic
Church.
He was born and raised in Livonia,
Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. When he was 19, he moved to Los
Angeles, where he began working for Hughes Aircraft as a microwave
technician. While at Hughes, he built and tested antennae sections
of commercial satellites. He entered the Dominican Order in 1988,
where he began his studies for the priesthood. He received his B.A.
in Philosophy at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (DSPT)
in Berkeley. During the 1992-93 academic year, he did his residency
here in Eugene at the Newman Center. He later completed his studies
by receiving an M.Div. and an M.A. in Theology at the DSPT, and was
ordained a priest in 1996.
Since he was ordained, Fr. Joseph
has served in various capacities and in various ministries. Prior to
coming to Eugene in August of 2006, he served in Antioch, CA as an
associate pastor, in Anchorage, AK as pastor of the cathedral, in
San Francisco as prior of the novitiate of the Western Dominican
Province, and in Oakland, CA as vicar provincial of the Western
Province. Having had a variety of experiences in his twelve years in
ministry, Fr. Joseph is excited to be working in campus ministry
with students and faculty of the U of O. One of the things that has
always driven Fr. Joseph is the opportunity to share his faith with
others and to accompany them in their walk of faith.
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