Meet our Seminarians

Rev. Mr. Stephen McGinnis

I was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1970 and am the eldest of two brothers and one sister.  My father was an Air Force physician, and as a result we moved around the country (and to the United Kingdom) quite frequently.  I graduated from Papillion-La Vista High School (Nebraska) in 1988 and the University of Notre Dame in 1992.

In 1992 I returned to Morgantown as an electrical engineering graduate student at West Virginia University.  I received both an M.S.E.E. degree, and a Ph.D. from WVU.  I remained at WVU as a Research Assistant Professor until 2003.

In 2003, my years of discernment led me to enter Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, PA.  After four years of formation, I was ordained to the diaconate for the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston on May 19, 2007.  I received the M.Div. degree from Saint Vincent on May 9, 2008.  I will be assigned to Saint Joseph the Worker Parish in Weirton, WV this summer with Father Dean Borgmeyer.