Fr. John Riccardo is a missionary and the Executive Director of ACTS XXIX. He was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit in 1996. In 2019, after twenty-three years in parish ministry, he founded Acts XXIX to proclaim the gospel in an attractive and compelling way and to equip clergy and lay leaders for the age in which God has chosen us to live. Fr. John is a graduate of the University of Michigan, the Gregorian University, and the Pope John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.