Augustinian Father Gus Esposito
CatholicPhilly.com staff report • Posted January 12, 2021
Augustinian Father Augustine Michael “Gus” Esposito, a widely known and admired religious priest, spiritual director, mentor to seminarians, educator and preacher died Jan. 9 at Bryn Mawr Hospital from COVID-19. He was 69 and in the 47th year of religious life.
Father Esposito was a professor of Spanish, spiritual director and head of the apostolic formation program at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood.
Bishop Timothy Senior, seminary rector, said in a statement that it was “with sadness” that he informed the seminary community of Father Esposito’s death in the hospital, where “his three sisters were with him praying as he died.”