# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-fessio
# Generated: 2026-08-14T19:38:03.721Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-fessio"
name: "Joseph Fessio"
slug: "joseph-fessio"
description: "Joseph Fessio is an American Jesuit priest, as well as the founder and editor of Ignatius Press. After studying with Joseph Ratzinger, he founded the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, one of the first Catholic Great Books programs in the United States, then served as the founding provost of Ave Maria University. He hosts the weekly podcast Father Fessio in Five."
tagline: "American priest"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Fessio2015.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "TV Personality"
  slug: "tv-personality"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1941-01-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.79
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.350865333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Fessio"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88"
    title: "چوزيف فيسيو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fessio"
    title: "Joseph Fessio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fessio"
    title: "Joseph Fessio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fessio"
    title: "Joseph Fessio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fessio"
    title: "Joseph Fessio"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BE%2C_%D0%94%D0%B6%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%84"
    title: "Фессио, Джозеф"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1986031"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump