Father Steven N. Gonzalez is a graduate of Cristo Rey New York High School in Manhattan.
He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Political Economy and Development from Fordham University, with a minor in Spanish literature.
From St. Joseph Seminary and College in Dunwoodie, he holds master’s degrees in Catholic Philosophical Studies, Divinity, and Theology. He also holds a bachelor’s in Sacred Theology from a program of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) administered by St. Joseph’s Seminary and College.
He attended the Luis Lorens Torres Children’s Academy Public School 114 in the Bronx. Originally a parishioner of Sacred Heart in Highbridge, Fr. Steven was 17 years old when he first heard the call to the priesthood at St. Lucy's Parish in the Bronx.