Fr. Stoeppel Receives Catholic University Teaching Award, Selected for Eucharistic Culture Project
04.21.25
Rev. Anthony J. Stoeppel, S.T.D., Mount St. Mary’s Seminary & School of Theology’s Dean of Men and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology, has received an award for his work in teaching and an opportunity to expand on that in the next two years through another program.
Recently, Fr. Stoeppel received the Award for Advancement in Teaching at The Catholic University of America’s Part-Time Faculty Awards Dinner. Fr. Stoeppel serves as the Faculty Coordinator for Church Management & Lecturer in CUA’s Busch School of Business, where he teaches courses on Church Management, with focuses on ecclesial finance and asset management, Church personnel management, parish management, diocesan and parish fundraising and Church communication. He joined the CUA faculty on a part-time basis in 2022.
In addition, Fr. Stoeppel was recently named as a cohort member for the University of Notre Dame’s 2025-27 Eucharistic Culture Project, a partnership between Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy and the Fitzgerald Institute for Real Estate’s Church Properties Initiative. The two year cohort, which will begin this summer, will feature multiple online classes, a formation trip to Rome in Spring 2026 and a capstone project in Spring 2027.
The research question guiding their work is: ‘how can the Church develop strategies for property management that take into account both the sacredness of Eucharistic space and the Church’s responsibility to the common good in neighborhoods?’
Fr. Stoeppel is the second member of the MTSM faculty to be part of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy cohort projects, with Aimee May, MTSM’s Coordinator of Lay Ecclesial Formation having been part of the 2022-24 cohort that focused on sustaining Eucharistic communities in the places they serve. To learn more about May’s time in the Notre Dame cohort, click here.
Fr. Stoeppel, a bi-ritual Latin-Byzantine priest of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, joined the MTSM faculty in Summer 2023 after having served as Vice Rector and Associate Professor of Pastoral Studies at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, California. He also served as the Vicar General for the Diocese of Tyler, president of Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic School in Tyler and as a pastor at two multi-lingual parishes.
A native of Cynthiana, Kentucky, Fr. Stoeppel was ordained to the priesthood in 2011 after completing his formation at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut. He holds his doctorate and licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, a Master of Arts in Theology in addition to his Master of Divinity from Holy Apostles and bachelor’s (agricultural engineering) and master’s (public administration) from the University of Kentucky.
To learn more about Fr. Stoeppel, read a profile on him from The Athenaeum magazine, here.