Joseph Fessio (1941–)

Jesuit founder of Ignatius Press. Joseph Fessio is an American Jesuit priest, as well as the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. After studying with Joseph Ratzinger, he founded the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, one of the first Catholic Great Books programs in the United States, then served as the founding provost of Ave Maria University. He hosts the weekly podcast Father Fessio in Five.