Steve Katsouros, SJ, President & CEO
A member of the United States East Province of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Steve Katsouros, S.J., is the president and CEO of the Come to Believe Network in New York City. From 2014 until August 2020, Fr. Katsouros served as the founding dean and executive director of Arrupe College at Loyola University Chicago.
Prior to his assignment at Arrupe, Fr. Katsouros served as the director of the Institute for Catholic Educational Leadership (ICEL) and associate dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco. From 2002-2011, Fr. Katsouros was president of Loyola, a coed Jesuit high school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
His doctorate, from Columbia University Teachers College, is in organizational leadership; his research interests are leadership; governance; and institutional performance. He was ordained in 1998.
Currently, Fr. Katsouros is a trustee at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School, Chicago; Josephinum Academy of the Sacred Heart, Chicago; Regis High School, New York; Regis University, Denver; and Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, Indiana and Saint Peter’s University in Jersey City, New Jersey;
His book about the launch of Arrupe College, COME TO BELIEVE: HOW THE JESUITS ARE REINVENTING EDUCATION (AGAIN), was published by Orbis in 2017 and received an award from the Christophers in 2018.
Because of the success of Arrupe College and its students, Fr. Katsouros moved to New York in August 2020 to design and create Come to Believe, a foundation and network that will replicate and scale the Arrupe model nationally.