Bro. Bernard F. Stratman, SM
Executive Director
NCEA Seminary Department
 
Marianist Brother Bernard F. Stratman is the executive director of the seminary department of the National Catholic Educational Association. His duties include providing leadership development to seminary staff members and convening, supporting and networking around current issues related to the formation of priests.

 

Over the last several years, Brother Bernard has commissioned several research projects.  In 2006, a study on recently ordained priests was published as Experiences of Priests Ordained Five to Nine Years. In 2007, the department secured funding to launch a distance learning network among Catholic schools of theology.

 

Prior to joining the NCEA in 2002, Brother Bernard served first in a programming and communications capacity and then as executive director of the National Federation of Priests’ Councils in Chicago (1989-2002).

 

Brother Bernard earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1970 from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas. He received a master of arts in instructional technologies from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, in 1977. 

 

Established in 1904, the NCEA is the largest private professional education organization in the world, representing 200,000 Catholic educators serving 7.6 million students in Catholic elementary and secondary schools, in religious education programs, in seminaries and in colleges and universities.