Father Thomas Yurchak
Board Member and Secretary
Fr. Tom Yurchak, Pastor, St. Jude Catholic Church, Eugene Oregon; co-founder of the Institute and also Secretary to the Board.
He was born in Sioux Falls, S.D., on July 7, 1949. He attended Crozier Seminary High School in Onamia, Minn., before transferring to Mount Angel Seminary High School, where he graduated. He remained at Mount Angel for his freshman year of college before transferring to the Archdiocesan House of Studies at Portland State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in history in 1971. He received a magister der theologie at the Universitaet Innsbruck in 1975. Returning to Portland, he was ordained on June 5, 1976, at St. Paul Church in Eugene.