Flavio Bravo

A migrant from Chinandega, Nicaragua, Father Flavio Bravo, SJ arrived in Miami, Florida in 1985 and entered the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1992. Fr. Bravo graduated from Saint Louis University in Missouri with a BA in philosophy and a minor in Spanish/ Latin American literature (1999) and then taught high school Spanish at Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, Texas. He earned an MDiv in Pastoral Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley (2005), where he was ordained a Catholic priest. He returned to Strake Jesuit College Preparatory to teach and serve as pastoral services director (2005-2015). Fr. Bravo went on to serve as Superior de la Compañia de Jesús, then President of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, and soon after as pastor of the Parroquia San Ignacio de Loyola, all in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Since 2022, he has served as the pastoral assistant for the itinerant team ofDel Camino Jesuit Border Ministries, and as Superior of the Jesuit community in Brownsville, Texas.