Fr. Seán Connolly is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. He was raised in the Lower Hudson Valley of New York in the Town of Ossining. He attended Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, and then the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts where he received a Bachelor of Arts in the Classics. After his undergraduate studies he enrolled in Saint Joseph's Seminary (Dunwoodie) in Yonkers, New York. There he received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, as well as a Master of Divinity and a Master of Arts in Theology from Dunwoodie. He was ordained to the priesthood in 2015 at St. Patrick's Cathedral. He has since served at several parishes and is currently serving as Pastor of the Parish of St. Margaret of Cortona - St. Gabriel in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx. In addition to his parochial duties, he writes for a number of publications and leads pilgrimages to shrines across the world.