About the Founder

Fr. Ramón Domínguez, founded the Don Bosco Center in 2005 as an outreach ministry of Youth Apostles Institute. Fr. Ramón was born in Havana, Cuba and has a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland (College Park). He worked for the US State Department for several years in U.S. embassy design and construction. During that time, he joined Youth Apostles Institute. He later graduated from St. John’s Seminary in Boston, MA with a Masters of Divinity and was ordained on June 3, 2000 for the Diocese of Fall River. He served as Parochial Vicar at the Cathedral and St. Anne in Fall River, then as Administrator for St. Hedwig and Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe parishes before moving back down to Virginia in 2004 after which he founded the Don Bosco Center in Manassas. Fr. Ramón has assisted at various parishes in Virginia including St. John the Apostle (Leesburg, VA), All Saints Church/St. Gabriel Mission (Manassas), Holy Trinity (Gainesville, VA), St. Katharine Drexel (Haymarket, VA), and has served as Interim Chaplain at PVI HS (Chantilly, VA) and Virginia Tech, Shenandoah University, and the Spanish Charismatic Renewal in the Diocese of Arlington. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board for the Light of Hope Alliance (Don Bosco Center), a member of the National Park Recreation Association (NRPA), and is Parochial Vicar at Queen of Apostles Catholic Church in Alexandria, Virginia.