Fr John is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He entered the Legionary novitiate in 2001, studied humanities in Cheshire, and later acquired B.A. (2006) and M.A. (2011) in Philosophy and B.A. in Theology (2014) from the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome. He was ordained a priest on December 13, 2014. Fr John was College Registrar from 2015 to 2017 and is currently teaching courses in Latin and Greek.