Father Tri John-Bosco Nguyen

Rector and Pastor

Father Tri is a native of Vietnam, where the Franciscan priests and sisters at his local parish were an early inspiration to him. He arrived in the United States in 1993.

Tri graduated from Seton Hall University with a Bachelor of Science degree in secondary education and theology and earned a Master of Arts degree from Georgia State University in applied linguistics and in teaching English as a second language. He taught and counseled young people in various schools in the Atlanta area before responding to a call to the priesthood.

He studied with the Salesians of St. John Bosco before applying for priestly formation with the Archdiocese of Atlanta and attending St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.

Father Tri was ordained to the priesthood on June 2, 2012. He served as parochial vicar at St. Peter Chanel parish in Roswell and at St. Brigid parish in Johns Creek before being appointed Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese in 2018. Since 2021, he has been pastor of Our Lady of the Mountains parish in Jasper. Please keep Father Nguyen in your prayers as he begins his ministry among us.