Welcome (Back) to Deacon Jeff Craig

Jeff Craig spent two summers ministering at St. Frances Cabrini as a seminarian. In May  2019, he completed his pastoral formation year in our grouping. In September 2019, he returned to Rome to continue his studies at North American College. Last October he was ordained a deacon at St, Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. Deacon Jeff recently returned stateside and has been assigned again to our grouping until his ordination to the priesthood in June.

Deacon Jeff hails from Warrendale, St. Alphonsus Parish. After graduating from Quigley Catholic, where he played soccer and baseball, Jeff studied psychology at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Florida, before being accepted into the Priestly Formation Program and beginning studies at St. Paul Seminary and Duquesne University in Fall 2012. Jeff speaks Italian and enjoys reading the works of Thomas Merton. He is the son of Jeff and Laurie Crag. We’re fortune to have Deacon Jeff with us again and look forward to his diaconal ministry. forward to his diaconal ministry.