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Fr. Steven Anthony Gamez
Father Steven Anthony Gamez was born at the Nix Hospital in downtown San Antonio. His father Jose Salazar Gamez was born in Kyle, Texas and his mother Cruz Gloria Cevallos Gamez was born and raised in San Antonio. He is the third of four children. He graduated from John Jay High School in San Antonio in 1990 and then joined the United States Navy. After the Navy he used his military benefits (G.I. Bill) to attend Santa Fe Community College and eventually completed an Associates of Applied Science in semi-conductor manufacturing in 1997.
Concerning his vocation to the priesthood, he first approached his parish priest at Resurrection of the Lord Catholic Church who counseled him and put him in contact with the vocation director for the Archdiocese of San Antonio in 1998. Father Steven eventually began his official seminary studies in August of 2000 at Holy Trinity Seminary in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from the University of Dallas in 2002 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Letters. He then moved back to San Antonio to begin his master's degree studies at Assumption Seminary and Oblate School of Theology and graduated with a Masters of Divinity in May 2008. He was ordained a priest May 17, 2008 at San Fernando Cathedral by the Most Reverend Jose Gomez.
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