Rev. Fr. David Wagner

Fr. Wagner’s journey to Lumen Christi is a long and winding road.  Born and raised in northeastern Ohio, Fr. Wagner was baptized and raised in the Episcopal Church.  At 19, he enlisted in the Air Force and after his discharge he earned his BA in Philosophy with a minor in English at the University of New Mexico.

Several years later he met and married Carol Anne Castillo.  In 2002 he discerned a vocation to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church.  He attended Nashotah House seminary in Wisconsin, and took his first parish, St. John’s, in Kewanee, Illinois in 2005.

A friend he met at Yale Divinity School who also was an Episcopal priest converted to the Roman Catholic Church and had been encouraging Fr. Wagner to do the same.  Eventually, he did, when in 2008 the Wagner family, now including son Joseph and daughter Natalie, moved to the San Antonio area.  

Fr. Wagner began the Pastoral Provision process in 2009, but transferred to the Ordinariate when it was launched in 2012.  In 2014, he was ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.  His Ordinariate assignment was a mission called St. Gilbert’s, and masses were done at St. Peter the Apostle in Boerne.

In 2016, Fr. Wagner left the Ordinariate to become Pastor at Notre Dame Catholic Church in Kerrville, where he served until June 2022, when he retired from active ministry.  Since then, he has been serving as a supply priest at several parishes in the Fredericksburg Deanery, as well as other venues, one of which is Sanctus Ranch.

Fr. Wagner has taught English at The Atonement Academy, and at Northwest Vista College and Ethics at St. Mary’s in San Antonio.