Fr. Jerome A. Magat, SThD is currently serving as a professor of moral theology at St. Patrick Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California.

Fr. Jerome Magat, SThD is a member of the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia serving in the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is a 1995 graduate of the University of Virginia (B.A. Government) and was ordained in 2002, after having completed his seminary studies at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary (M.Div., M.A. in Theology, summa cum laude) in Emmitsburg, MD.  In his eleven years of diocesan service, Fr. Magat was a parochial vicar in four parishes, a marriage Tribunal auditor, an episcopal master of ceremonies and a peer-elected member of the presbyteral council.  Fr. Magat also founded the Guadalupe Free Clinic of Colonial Beach – his diocese’s first free medical clinic for the poor (est. 2005). The Clinic has been internationally recognized, having received the 2005 International Community Activity Award from the Knights of Columbus, the fraternal order’s highest honor for service work. 

Since 2013, he has worked on seminary faculties and has served as Vice-Rector, Assistant Director of the Propaedeutic Program, Program Coordinator for the Master of Divinity Program, Director of Operations,  Director of Liturgy and Professor of Moral Theology and Homiletics and Liturgy at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, CA, in addition to his work as a featured contributor to the seminary YouTube channel. He has also served as an Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, MD. While assigned to Assumption Seminary in San Antonio, TX, he served as Dean of Men and an Associate Professor of Moral Theology for the University of Incarnate Word.

In 2016, Fr. Magat was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at Mt. St. Mary’s University. In 2019, Fr. Magat completed a licentiate in Moral Theology (STL) (summa cum laude) and in 2021, he completed a doctorate in Moral Theology (SThD) (summa cum laude) – both at the Accademia Alfonsiana (Pontifical Lateran University) in Rome. His dissertation is entitled, “Recognizing the Unrecognized: Pacem in Terris and the Human Right to Immigrate in an Age of Nation-State Dominance.” Fr. Magat is the author of Honoring the Covenant: Daily Mass Gospel Meditations for Busy Married Couples (2023) and Honoring the Covenant: Sunday, Solemnity, and Feast Day Mass Meditations for Busy Married Couples (2025), both available on amazon.com.