Fr. Frank S. Donio, S.A.C., D.Min. is Director of the Catholic Apostolate Center. He is former Provincial Rector of the Immaculate Conception Province of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate (Pallottine Fathers and Brothers). Fr. Frank holds additional provincial, national and international leadership positions in administration, formation, development, and finance in the Society of the Catholic Apostolate and in the Union of Catholic Apostolate (UAC), an international public association of the faithful founded by St. Vincent Pallotti in 1835. Some of his prior assignments include Provincial Director of Formation, Pastoral Director of St. Jude Shrine in Baltimore, MD and Chaplain of Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in Pennsauken, NJ.
Fr. Frank is a Consultant to the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He also collaborated with the Conference on the development of Living as Missionary Disciples: A Resource for Evangelization and on the Convocation of Catholic Leaders. Fr. Frank has served as Consultant to the Archdiocese of Baltimore for pastoral planning and assisted in the development of its Be Missionary Disciples planning process. He has made presentations on evangelization, co-responsibility and collaboration in ministry and apostolate, pastoral planning, Church leadership and management, and Pallottine spirituality at various universities, schools of Theology, dioceses, and national and international conferences, including the University of Notre Dame, Australian Catholic University, The Catholic University of America, Catholic Theological Union, the Archdioceses of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Dubuque, Hartford, and Washington, the Mid-Atlantic Congress for Catholic Leaders, the Leadership Roundtable, the National Association for Lay Ministry, the Catholic Campus Ministry Association, the Catholic Mission Congress, the National Conference for Catechetical Leadership, and the JS Paluch Vocation Seminar.
Fr. Frank is an Adjunct Professor at St. Joseph's College of Maine in the online Theology program and at Fordham University in the Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education. He is also a Lecturer in the undergraduate Theology program in the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of Catholic mission, pastoral ministry, spirituality, ecclesiology, and Church management and leadership. Fr. Frank has an extensive background in young adult ministry, particularly at the collegiate level, and has assisted pastorally at various universities in Maryland and the District of Columbia over the last twenty-one years. Currently, he assists the Office of Campus Ministry at The Catholic University of America. Fr. Frank is also significantly involved in chaplaincy with the Knights of Columbus, including three terms as State Chaplain of the District of Columbia. For the past eleven years, he has served as Chaplain of The Catholic University of America Council 9542.
Fr. Frank holds a Doctor of Ministry in Adult Spiritual Formation from The Catholic University of America (CUA), as well as a Bachelor of Arts in History (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and a Master of Arts in Church History from CUA. He also holds a Master of Divinity from Washington Theological Union and a Master of Science in Church Management from Villanova University School of Business.
Born in 1966, Fr. Frank is originally from Hammonton, New Jersey, the oldest of four sons of Frank (deceased) and Angela Donio. He made his first consecration as a Pallottine in 1986 and his ordination to the priesthood was in 1994.
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