Father Francis de Rosa is the pastor of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church in Colonial Beach and St. Anthony Mission in King George.  He has been a priest for 23 years and has served in six parishes in the Diocese of Arlington.  After having completed philosophy studies in Rome, Father de Rosa went on for graduate studies in theology at Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland.  He did further graduate work at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family in Washington DC and earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology, specializing in bioethics. He has also studied in Mexico and France.

Father de Rosa has lived in the South for almost 25 years.  During these years he has done much research into the role and place of Catholics and the Catholic Church during the War Between the States.