View recorded livestream of Fr. Romero’s ordination below:
Will join the team of Christus Ministries in Los Angeles, which serves young adults.
View recorded livestream of Fr. Romero’s ordination below:
Fr. David Romero, S.J., was born and raised in Northridge, California. He was an altar server and Eucharistic minister for many years in his home parish, Our Lady of Lourdes in Northridge. He graduated from Crespi Carmelite High School in Encino, California, in 2005 and then attended Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles out of a desire to pursue acting in a sitcom. God had other ideas! David first met the Jesuits at LMU and became more involved with campus ministry and the Center for Service and Action. These opportunities to live a life of faith and justice led him to study abroad with the Casa de la Solidaridad program in El Salvador, which deepened his discernment to enter the Jesuits after graduating in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in theological studies and a minor in business administration. As a novice, he volunteered as a hospital chaplain at St. Francis Hospital in Lynwood, California, and at the Jesuit Restorative Justice Initiative, worked at St. Anne’s Primary School in Kingston, Jamaica, and taught at Verbum Dei High School in Los Angeles. After professing first vows in 2011, he was sent to Fordham University in the Bronx, New York, for first studies, where he earned a master’s degree in philosophical resources and helped in the campus ministry office of Cristo Rey New York High School in East Harlem. For his regency, David was sent to work for one year with the alternative study abroad program, Casa Bayanihan, in the Philippines, accompanying students and marginalized communities in Metro Manila. He was then missioned for two years to Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, California, where he taught religion and helped in campus ministry and with immersions, as well as served as the chaplain for the theatre program. In 2017, he was missioned to the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, where he earned his Master of Divinity degree while serving as a chaplain at the Suffolk County House of Corrections and then as a deacon at St. Michael Parish, in Bedford, Massachusetts. After ordination, he will join the team of Christus Ministries in Los Angeles, which serves young adults. (USA West Province)
Bachelor’s degree, theological studies, Loyola Marymount University; Master’s degree, philosophical resources, Fordham University; Master of Divinity, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry