Gonzaga Jesuit Community

Father Taroh, originally from Chad and ordained a priest in 2021, works at Washington Jesuit Academy (WJA) in its Development Office. Before coming to WJA, Father Taroh graduated from the Boston College School of Theology and Sacred Mystery with a Licentiate in Theology. 

 

Father Gavin lived in Chile for most of his 57+ years as a Jesuit.  Since his return state-side in 2018, he has worked in the spiritual ministries of retreats at Loyola on the Potomac Retreat House and the accompaniment of persons in discernment. He also lends support in sacramental ministry at Sacred Heart Parish, Richmond and at Holy Name Parish here in Washington, D.C.

 

Father Geib is the current Superior (Rector) of the Gonzaga Jesuit Community. In addition, he serves on the vocations team for the Jesuit U.S. East Province. Fr. Geib taught biology and chemistry here at Gonzaga from 1985-1987. Prior to his return to Gonzaga, he worked with Jesuit Refugee Service in Asia and Africa, was campus minister at Wheeling Jesuit University, and coordinated healthcare for many years for older and infirmed Jesuits.

 

R.J. Jacobs, S.J. is a science teacher at Gonzaga. Originally from the small town of Vienna, West Virginia, he attended West Virginia University for science education and pharmacy degrees, and then studied social philosophy and worked in campus ministry at Loyola University Chicago. He has been a Jesuit for five years.

Father Lamanna is a full-time JD student at Georgetown Law School. He was ordained a priest in June of 2021, and before his theological studies at Boston College School of Theology and Sacred Ministry, he taught high school in Yap, Micronesia. He is originally from a suburb of Albany, NY.

A Gonzaga alumnus (1975), Father Lingan is the 37th President of Gonzaga College High School. Prior to assuming this position in 2021, he held numerous administrative positions: Rector of the Georgetown University Jesuit Community; Novice Director, Socius (or Executive Assistant) to the Provincial of the Maryland Province; Rector/President of St. Michael’s Institute. In addition, he previously served at Gonzaga as a Faculty member and Director of Campus Ministry (1991-1995),  and Interim President (2010-2011, 35th President).

Father Ntungu, from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), is a doctoral student (SJD) at Georgetown Law School. He previously served as a faculty member at Loyola University of Congo and in Jesuit administration in the Central Africa Province (DRC and Angola).

 

Father Paulson is the President of the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States. Prior to this assignment, he served as Provincial of the Midwest Jesuits, Rector at Loyola University Chicago, and President of St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago.

 

Fr. Douglas Peduti, S.J. is Scholar in Residence at the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. In addition, he teaches Philosophy of the Human

Person and The Ethics of AI at Duquesne. He is the English translator of Rudolf Bultmann-Martin Heidegger Correspondence, 1925-1975, Cambridge UP, 2025. Previously, he taught philosophy at Seattle and Fairfield Universities. His current focus of scholarship is on the philosophy of language, technology, and the human person.

 

Father Reiser is Executive Director of the Jesuit Schools Network (JSN), a network of the 89 member Jesuit schools located throughout Canada, the United States, Belize, and Micronesia serving 56,000 young women and men under three models of Jesuit education – Nativity middle schools, Cristo Rey high schools, and Jesuit middle and high schools. Before coming to JSN, Fr. Reiser served in Jesuit secondary and presecondary education, primarily in Upstate New York and New Jersey.