Fr. John Sweeney is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. He entered the Legionary Novitiate in 2001, studying humanities in Cheshire, and later acquired B.A. (2006) and M.A. (2011) in Philosophy and B.A. in Theology (2014) from the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum College in Rome. He was ordained a priest on December 13, 2014.