Our Pastor

Fr. Eric J. Ritter was born in San Antonio, the third of four children and two of his older brothers are living in the Boerne area. He was raised in a Catholic and military family. They transferred locations several times until settling in the Corpus Christi area, where he attended elementary through high school in Flour Bluff.

He received an architectural engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin. Fr. Eric worked with homeless young adults at Covenant House of California and with the Brothers of Sacred Heart in New Orleans, Louisiana. He taught for three years at Healy Murphy Center, an alternative high school for pregnant teenagers.

Fr. Eric was in the seminary with the Missionary Servants of the Most Holy Trinity for five years. Later, he transferred to the Archdiocese of San Antonio and continued his studies at Assumption Seminary where he was ordained a priest on May 24, 2003.

After ordination, he was assigned as Parochial Vicar at St. Leo in San Antonio, followed by an assignment at St. Luke. In 2005, his first assignment as pastor was at Sacred Heart and St. James churches of Gonzales and St. Patrick in Waelder. Since then, Fr. Eric has served as pastor of St. Dominic in San Antonio, Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Selma and recently at St. Luke Catholic Church.

Fr. Eric’s hobbies are sports, traveling, movies and photography. He is a sports enthusiast who enjoys watching and playing sports of all kinds, especially football, basketball, golf, racquetball and volleyball.