Director of the Australian Jesuit Province Tertianship
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Fr Steve Curtin SJ was ordained a priest by Bishop Cremin at St Mary's Church, North Sydney in 1994. It was the feast of St Francis Xavier and Steve's mother and father, his 8 brothers and their families were proud to celebrate with him such a coming home. Before joining the Jesuits in 1985 at the age of 28, Steve Curtin worked as a youth worker with juvenile offenders. While training for ordination he spent time with traditional Aboriginal communities in the eastern Kimberley and in Alice Springs. He also worked as a teacher at Sydney's St Aloysius College, as a pastoral worker with the homeless, and as a counsellor with Vietnamese refugees in the Philippines. Steve has degrees in Psychology and Theology. After his ordination in 1994, Steve spent a year at St Ignatius Parish in Richmond, before moving to Bangkok in 1996. He worked for five years with the Jesuit Refugee Service Asia Pacific, as Assistant Regional Director and then Regional Director. During this time, Steve also managed projects in Indonesia, East Timor, Thailand, Cambodia and Nepal. In October 2001, Steve became the Director of Jesuit Mission. He was appointed a Consultor to the Provincial of the Australian Jesuits in 2007, and was Provincial of the Australian Jesuit Province from August 2008 to July 2014. Steve is currently the Director of the Australian Province Tertianship program.