Introducing the New President of CANFP

Father Blaise Berg was born the ninth of twelve children in Yuba City, California. As the first boy after eight girls, it was a pretty big deal at Saint Isidore Parish. So they put up a sign at the parish barbeque that weekend saying: “It’s a boy at the Bergs!” Father Berg has ten sisters and one brother and twenty-five nieces and nephews.

The young Blaise’s on the job experience included both hands on and management roles in the family business, and a year spent doing long haul trucking. His academic formation included studying in the “great books program of the St. Ignatius Institute at USF (majoring in philosphy and theology,) an MBA from Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, a baccalaureate degree in theology (S.T.B.) from the Gregorian University in Rome, seminarian studies at the North American College in Rome, and earning a licentiate (S.T.L) as well as a doctoral degree in theology (S.T.D.) at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Lateran University, in Rome, where he also was ordained to the priesthood, for the Diocese of Sacramento.

Prior to his current assignment as pastor of St. Mary’s Parish in Vacaville, he also served at St. Rose and St. John the Baptist parishes, as chaplain of St. Thomas Aquinas Newman Center in Chico, as well as Vice-Chancellor and Secretary to Bishop Weigand, and more recently as Episcopal Vicar for Clergy.

Fr. Berg has served on the Executive Board of CANFP since 2003, and his extensive experience guiding the mission of CANFP, coupled with his vast practical experience, advanced academic training, pastoral insight, and inspiring spiritual leadership, will benefit CANFP greatly as he assumes the role of President.