John Berg (priest)

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John Marcus Berg Template:Post-nominals (born 1970) is an American Catholic priest and former Superior General of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. He was elected on July 7, 2006 for a six-year term,[1] and then in July 2012 for a second term.[2] Berg's second term concluded on July 9, 2018. On July 9, 2024, Berg was elected as Superior General for a third term.[3]

Biography

Berg was born to a Catholic family in Minnesota in 1970.[4]Template:Better source needed Berg graduated from the Academy of Holy Angels in Richfield, MN.[5] Berg studied philosophy at Thomas Aquinas College in California from 1989 to 1993,[1] where he discerned a vocation to the priesthood. In 1994, he entered the Fraternity's seminary in Wigratzbad, where he studied for two years; he finished his studies with a Licentiate in Dogmatic Theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.[1][4][6] Ordained by Bishop James Timlin of Scranton on September 6, 1997,[4] he has worked as both a pastor and as a seminary professor.[1] Until his election to superior general, Berg was chaplain of the Latin Mass Community of Sacramento, California.[6]

After stepping down as superior of the FSSP, Berg was appointed as pastor of St. Mary's Church on Broadway in Providence, Rhode Island.[7] In August 2021 he was transferred to the Immaculate Conception Church in Omaha, Nebraska.[8]

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