Meet Fr. Stephen

Fr. Stephen grew up in Austin in a small Catholic parish that was founded the year he was born. He attended Catholic schools in Austin from 1st grade through high school. In his parish and school, he sang in the choir and served as an altar server and sacristan.

In 2005, Fr. Stephen moved to Richardson to attend the University of Texas at Dallas, where he got an engineering degree. During his college years, he served at All Saints in youth ministry, where he grew closer to Christ through prayer and service. In Eucharistic adoration one evening, the Spirit of God called him into the seminary, where he discovered his vocation to the priesthood and a zeal for teaching the Word of God and the richness of our Christian faith.

He was ordained in Dallas by Bishop Burns in May 2018 and was assigned to Prince of Peace in Plano, where he served for 4 years. In his time in priestly ministry, he has seen the amazing ways in which God is active, transforming hearts and minds through the presence of the Holy Spirit. He prays that we may all be instruments of God's loving Providence, sharing his blessings with the world.

As pastor of St. Joseph, he hopes to be a witness of God’s guidance and love to the people who have been entrusted to him in imitation of our patron.