FATHER SERGE PROPST, O.P

Born of strict Southern Baptist parents in Aiken, S. C. on January 4, 1942, Father Propst was raised in South Carolina, New Jersey, and Tennessee. He attended the University of South Carolina, from which he graduated in 1960 with a B.S. Degree in Biology.  He converted to the Catholic faith in 1963 and served four years in the Navy as an electronic technician. 

He entered the Dominican novitiate at Winona, Minnesota, in 1967, for the Western Province, and after completing his studies, Fr. Propst was ordained in 1973. Currently he divides his time between preaching for the Western Province and teaching theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.