Fr. David Mariano Vidal is the Pastor of Ave Maria Parish and a priest of the Diocese of Venice in Florida.
In 1993, he began studies for the priesthood and was ordained in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on August 9, 2001. After some years of missionary work in the United States, Fr. Vidal entered the graduate program in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America in Fall 2009. He received the Licentiate degree in Philosophy in 2012, with a Thesis on 鈥淣ature and Suppositum in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas鈥 under the direction of Msgr. John F. Wippel. He received the Doctor of Philosophy degree in 2020, with a dissertation on 鈥淩es as Transcendental in the Metaphysics of Thomas Aquinas鈥 under the guidance of Dr. Gregory T. Doolan.
Fr. Vidal lectured at Saint John Vianney College Seminary, in Miami from 2018 to 2022. He has been an adjunct professor at AMU's Department of Philosophy since 2023. In the Diocese of Venice, Father Vidal was assigned as Parochial Vicar of Ave Maria Parish, Ave Maria, in August 2017, Administrator of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Parish, LaBelle, in May 2018, and Pastor of Ave Maria Parish since February 2021.
Fr. Vidal comes from a large family of seven siblings. Two of his brothers are missionary priests, and three of his sisters are nuns.
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