Fr. Greg J. Markey, M.Div., M.A., Ph.L.

Fr. Greg J. Markey was born and raised in Ridgefield, Connecticut. He is the youngest of eleven children. He attended public school and graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1991 with a degree in Political Science, and two minors in Philosophy and Mathematics.  He began his seminary at St. John Fisher Seminary for the Diocese of Bridgeport and graduated from Mount Saint Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland with a Masters in Divinity and a Masters in Theology.  He was ordained to the priesthood in 1999 and his assignments included parochial vicar at St. Peter Church in Bridgeport for four years, and Pastor of St. Mary Church in Norwalk for over eleven years. 

            Fr. Markey has studied Spanish in Spain, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, and has spent much of his priestly ministry serving in Hispanic Ministry.  

            Fr. Markey has also been a regular columnist for his diocesan paper, The Fairfield County Catholic, and Homiletics and Pastoral Review, and The National Catholic Register.  His book, Discovering the Camino of Santiago, was published by Roman Catholic Books in 2011. 

            In 2015, he returned to school to obtain a Licentiate in philosophy from the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. He returned to the diocese in 2017 to teach philosophy and Latin at St. John Fisher Seminary, and to serve as parochial vicar at St. Lawrence Church in Shelton, CT.  

            In 2019, Thomas Aquinas College founded a new campus in Northfield, Massachusetts and Fr. Markey was invited to serve as its first chaplain. He currently serves the growing student body by offering daily Masses, hearing Confessions, and giving spiritual direction.