Father Jesús Salinas, LC

Father Jesús Salinas was born and raised in Mexico City. After graduating from the high school seminary for the Legionaries of Christ in Mexico City, Father Jesús joined the Legion’s novitiate in Cheshire, Connecticut, in 2006, where he spent his first four years of formation. He studied philosophy in Thornwood, New York, for two years and then was assigned to serve for two years as a dean at the high school seminary, Sacred Heart Apostolic School, in Rolling Prairie, Indiana. Father Jesús then served one year as a youth director in San Jose, California. From 2015 to 2018, Father Jesus studied theology in Rome, and on May 4, 2019, he was ordained a priest at the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome. Father Jesús has spent his first four years as a priest in Cincinnati, serving as the chaplain of Royalmont Academy.

Father Jesús enjoys ministering to families, administering the sacraments and mentoring youth. Father Jesus also enjoys running, training for marathons and eating Graeter’s ice cream. He is the youngest of five children and an uncle of eight nieces and nephews.