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Wisconsin Province ordains two new priests
J. Martin Hosking Jr., SJ, and Gregory J. O'Meara, SJ, members of the Society of Jesus, were ordained to the priesthood Friday, June 7 at Gesu Catholic Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The Most Rev. Robert Morneau, auxiliary bishop of Green Bay, presided.
O'Meara, 42, was born in Milwaukee and grew up in West Bend. He graduated from West Bend East High School, earned a bachelor's degree at Notre Dame University, and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School at Madison in 1985.
He went on to work as a criminal prosecutor in the Milwaukee District Attorney's Office before entering the Society of Jesus in 1992. During his training to be a priest, O'Meara taught law at Creighton University in the spring of 1994 and at Marquette University from 1997-99. He earned a Master of Divinity degree from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied from 1999-2002. After ordination he will return to Marquette University to teach law.
Hosking, 37, was born in Denver, Colorado and grew up in Omaha. He graduated from Creighton Preparatory School in 1983. He attended the University of Granada and Creighton University, graduating from Creighton in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in Spanish.
Hosking entered the Society of Jesus in 1987 and pronounced perpetual vows in 1989. From 1989-90 he studied humanities at Creighton University and philosophy at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile from1990-1992.
Hosking worked in the Dominican Republic during summer and fall 1990. He was a founding teacher at Nativity Jesuit Middle School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1993 and continued working there until 1996. He earned masters degrees in theology and divinity from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he studied from 1996-2000, spending summers at a variety of ministries, including working with gang-involved youth in Los Angeles in 1997.
His most recent assignment has been teaching Spanish at Creighton Prep, where he will continue after ordination, and working in deaconate assistance to the Mexican community at St Joseph's Parish in South Omaha.
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