| Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
| Mitch Pacwa | |
| Honorific Suffix: | SJ |
| Birth Name: | Mitchell Pacwa |
| Birth Date: | 27 July 1949 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Priest |
| Religion: | Christianity (Roman Catholic) |
| Ordained: | 1976 (priest) |
Mitchell Pacwa (born July 27, 1949) is an American Jesuit priest. He is president and founder of Ignatius Productions and is now the senior fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.[1]
Pacwa completed high school at Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary in 1967 with the intention of becoming a priest for the Archdiocese of Chicago.[2] He decided that he wanted to be a Jesuit in high school and was accepted after his freshman year at Loyola University Chicago. He earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy and theology from University of Detroit Mercy and was ordained a priest of the Society of Jesus in 1976. He later completed Master of Divinity and Bachelor of Sacred Theology degrees from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in Old Testament from Vanderbilt University.[3]
He is an accomplished linguist, speaking several ancient languages including Latin, Koine Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and Ugaritic, as well as the modern languages of English, German, Spanish, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Arabic, French, and Italian. He is of Polish descent.[4]
He has taught at Loyola Academy Wilmette, IL, Loyola University Chicago and the University of Dallas.
In 1983, he became a show host for the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and relocated to Alabama. On EWTN, Pacwa hosts or has hosted the following TV shows: EWTN Live, Threshold of Hope, The Holy Rosary in the Holy Land, and Scripture and Tradition with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. Pacwa is also the host of the Wednesday Open Line program and EWTN Live on the EWTN radio network. He also occasionally offers the televised Daily Mass on EWTN.
Fr. Pacwa is biritual; in addition to Latin Rite faculties, he is also authorized to celebrate the Eucharist using the Maronite Rite, known as Qurbono or Divine Liturgy.