Fr. Gregory Gresko, O.S.B, Prior 

Fr. Gregory was born on 31 August 1970 in Towson, Maryland and has lived in the Richmond metro area since 1972.  A 1988 honors graduate of Collegiate, he completed his B.S. in Psychology and English at William and Mary in 1992 and his M.A.Ed. in Secondary Education (English) at William and Mary in 1998.  He was a major force in founding Cirkevni Gymnazium Plzen, a new Catholic school begun in 1992 in what is now the Czech Republic, after the fall of the Berlin Wall.  In that role, he assisted in school administration and developed the English language curriculum for the new school.  His experience also stretched to Poland in the late 1990s, when Fr. Gregory was in charge of developing a new English literature curriculum at XIV Liceum in Wroclaw, a state school whose English department was ranked #1 in Poland at that time.  Fr. Gregory holds the Commonwealth of Virginia’s post-graduate licensure in Secondary Education (English) and currently is seeking state endorsement in school administration.  Fr. Gregory earned his S.T.B. summa cum laude in 2005 from the Pontificial Athenaeum of Sant’Anselmo in Rome and his S.T.L. magna cum laude in Moral Theology (Marriage and Family Studies, with sub-specialization in sexual ethics) in 2008 from the Pontifical Lateran University, John Paul II Institute (Vatican City), who by virtue of the S.T.L. has licensed Fr. Gregory with the necessary credentials to serve as a professor of theology at any university, seminary or school worldwide.  His S.T.L. dissertation was entitled, “Educating to Love: Foundational Pedagogy in Light of Karol Wojtyła’s Love and Responsibility”. In addition, Fr. Gregory is in the midst of researching and writing his doctoral dissertation for the same Vatican institute, on the Consecration of the Family to the Heart of Jesus in Light of the Pastoral Ministry of Père Mateo Crawley-Boevey, ss.cc.