Fr. MacNeill first heard the call to the priesthood in high school and entered the seminary for the Archdiocese of Hartford after graduating with a B.A. in Classics and Catholic Studies from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. Seminary studies in philosophy and theology took him to Theological College and the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and ultimately to Rome, where he completed an S.T.B. at the Pontifical Gregorian University and an S.T.L. in Theology and Patristic Sciences at the Pontifical Patristics Institute. Fr. MacNeill has served in various pastoral assignments as a deacon and priest in West Simsbury, Manchester, Waterbury, Enfield, and – most recently – as parochial vicar of Blessed Michael McGivney Parish in New Haven. A lifelong musician, he also enjoys traveling and all things fitness.
