1. Worked in campus ministry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
2. Mentored students in the corporate work study program at Cristo Rey New York High School.
3. Directed the retreat program for campus ministry and taught business law at Fairfield University.
Will work at St. Peter Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Douglas J. Ray, S.J., was born in Yonkers, New York, and grew up in the Bronx and Manhattan. He met the Jesuits in kindergarten at his grammar school, St. Ignatius Loyola, before attending Regis High School in New York City. Doug did his undergraduate studies at Princeton University in New Jersey, where he earned a degree in medieval history, before studying law at Harvard. He practiced securities law in New York, first at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and then at AXA Equitable Life Insurance. Doug began discerning a call to the priesthood soon after graduating from law school but was uncertain how to answer that call. His experience as the third generation of his family to be taught by Jesuits helped attract him to learn more about the Society. After several years of spiritual direction, he entered the novitiate in 2010. As a novice, Doug worked in campus ministry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. After professing his first vows, he then studied philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York. During his time at Fordham he volunteered at Cristo Rey New York High School, where he mentored students in the corporate work study program. Doug then worked at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut, where he directed the retreat program for the campus ministry department and taught business law at the Dolan School of Business. While working toward his Master of Divinity degree from the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, Doug also served as a deacon at Saint Ignatius Loyola Church in Chestnut Hill and worked with the RCIA program there. After ordination, he will work at St. Peter Church, the Jesuit parish in Charlotte, North Carolina. He hopes to celebrate his first Mass at St. Ignatius Loyola Church in Manhattan.
Bachelor’s degree, history, Princeton University; Juris Doctor, Harvard Law School; Master’s degree, philosophical resources, Fordham University; Master of Divinity, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry