Compass Loyola University New Orleans

Fr. William J. Farge, S.J. is a Jesuit priest of the New Orleans Province of the Society of Jesus. He graduated from Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston, TX in 1965 and entered the Jesuit Novitiate at Grand Coteau, LA. After completing philosophy studies at Loyola University New Orleans, he was assigned to Japan in 1971. On completion of the intensive Japanese language program at the Jesuit Language School in Kamakura, he was assigned to teach English and religion at the Jesuit high school in Hiroshima. He did his theology studies at Sophia University, Tokyo and was ordained in Tokyo in 1978. After ordination he taught English and religion for twelve years at the Jesuit high school in Kobe and returned to the U.S. in 1991. He finished his Ph.D. in Japanese at Indiana University in 1997 and is presently teaching Japanese language and culture in the Modern Foreign Language Department of Loyola University New Orleans. He is the moderator of COMPASS at Loyola.