Steven Beseau

Beseau was born in Shawnee, Kansas on May 24, 1966, to David and Mary Sue (née Sigourney) Beseau, being one of four children.^[1][2][3] He graduated from Aquinas High School in Overland Park, Kansas in 1984,^[4][5] and earned his bachelors degree in education from the University of Kansas^[6] and masters degree in divinity from the University of Saint Mary of the Lake before being ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Kansas City in June 1995 by Archbishop James Keleher.^[7][8][6][3] His first assignment was as associate pastor at St. Ann's in Prairie Village.^[3]

Following ordination, Beseau pursued his doctorate at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome, in 2010 defending a dissertation entitled "Magnanimity as an Interpretive Key for Moral Catechesis of Young Adults", having begun it five years earlier in 2005. He also served as a campus minister and chaplain at the University of Kansas.^[9]

In 2016, he was appointed an assistant professor of moral theology at the Athenaeum of Ohio before being appointed the seventeenth rector and president of the Pontifical College Josephinum in March 2019.^[8] In 2023, Lazzaro You Heung-sik appointed Beseau to a further three years as rector-president.^[10]

In recognition of "long and dedicated service to the Church", Beseau was named a Chaplain of His Holiness with the title monsignor in April of 2026.^[11]