Rev. Mark P. Fusco, SJ

Rev. Mark P. Fusco, SJ (MAR), was born February 17, 1965, in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. He is the younger of two sons of Eleanor and the late Peter A. Fusco. Upon graduation from Monsignor Paul Dwyer High School, he attended St. Michael's College, University of Toronto, earning an Honors Bachelor's degree in Religious Studies and English Literature in 1989. He proceeded to earn a Master's degree in Philosophical Theology from Yale University in 1991. Rev. Mr. Fusco then worked on International Health Issues at the Vatican, and as director of Programs at the Joel Nafuma Refugee Center in Rome. Later he received his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in Moral Theology from the Lateran University and worked for a number of years in the private sector and in secondary education.

In 2005, he entered the Society of Jesus at the Novitiate of St. Andrews in Syracuse, New York. He studied philosophy at Loyola University in Chicago before beginning doctoral work at the University of Toronto in Systematic Theology. Ordained to the deaconate in April 2010, Rev. Mr. Fusco served as a deacon at St. Paul's Cathedral in Toronto, Canada. As a priest, he will initially work in pastoral work at a parish before returning to the Georgetown University Community to finish his dissertation.

He celebrated a Mass of Thanksgiving Sunday, June 12, 2011, in Dahlgren Chapel at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C.