25 Years as a Priest in 2024
Vice President for Mission and Ministry, Georgetown University – Washington, D.C.
In 2024, Fr. Mark Bosco, SJ, a Jesuit of the USA Central and Southern Province, celebrates the 25th anniversary of his priestly ordination. Father Bosco has served as vice president for Mission and Ministry at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., since July 2017.
Prior to arriving at Georgetown, Fr. Bosco was an associate professor of English and Theology at Loyola University of Chicago beginning in 2003. While at Loyola, he directed The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage from 2012-2017.
Father Bosco’s academic interests focus on the intersection of religion and art, especially the 20th-century Catholic literary tradition. He has published five books and over 20 articles and book chapters on authors including Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor, Susaku Endo, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. In 2019, he co-wrote and co-directed the documentary film Flannery, which won the first ever Ken Burns Library of Congress Award for best documentary film.
In his role at Georgetown, Fr. Bosco shares the university’s Catholic, Jesuit heritage with students, faculty and alumni through teaching undergraduate courses in theology and English and offering seminars, immersion programs and retreats. He is also responsible for campus ministry and pastoral care at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital.
A native of St. Louis, Fr. Bosco entered the Jesuit novitiate in Denver in 1990. As part of his Jesuit formation, he taught theology at Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora, Colorado.
He earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cardinal Glennon College, a master’s degree in English from Saint Louis University, a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in theology and literature from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley.
