Fr. Steven Reilly, LC

Father Steven Reilly, LC, is a member of the Legionaries of Christ.

After having joined the congregation in 1982, he was ordained in 1994, in Mexico City. He studied philosophy in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University and theology at the Legion’s own Pontifical University, Regina Apostolorum, also in Rome. He has served in the Legion’s General Directorate and also held positions such as vocation director and Apostolate Coordinator in the Legion’s Territorial Directorate of North America.

From 1996 – 2003 he was the superior of the Legionaries in Dallas, Texas, and Director of Formation at The Highlands School. In 2003 he was assigned to the Legion’s center in Potomac, Maryland and served as vice-rector.

Among the apostolic positions he held were chaplain of Woodmont Academy, the Executive Director of the Center for Family Development in Crownsville, Maryland, and director of the Regnum Christi in Baltimore.

He was the Legion’s safe environment coordinator from 2008 until 2019 and directed the Legion’s safe environment accreditation from Praesidium, Inc., which was awarded in 2010 and reissued in 2014.

He returned to school in 2011 and received a master’s degree in Social Work from Fordham University in 2013. Also, in that year he was named superior of the Legion’s community in New York and currently serves in that capacity until fall 2020. From 2015 to 2020, he was the spiritual advisor to the Clergy Consultation and Treatment Service at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Harrison, New York. In 2020, he was named to the territorial council for the Legion’s North American territory and joined the territorial directorate community in Cumming, Georgia.

While still serving on the territorial council, he was assigned to be the local superior of the Legionary community in Raleigh, North Carolina.

His younger brother is also a priest in the Legion, Father Scott Reilly LC, who is currently assigned as pastor at St Brendan the Navigator Parish, Cumming, Georgia.