Jonathan DeFelice OSB is an American Catholic priest and the former President of Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire.

[1] DeFelice grew up in Bristol, Rhode Island, and graduated from Portsmouth Abbey School in 1965; he then attended Saint Anselm College, earning a bachelor's degree in Philosophy in 1969.

[3] He served a five-year term as a member of the New Hampshire Postsecondary Education Commission beginning in 1990 after being sworn in by then Gov.

[4] Under his leadership, the college sought to expand its inclusiveness efforts to attract both students and faculty of diverse backgrounds.

[5] In May 1992, The Sun Journal reported on Defelice's directive to college employees to discontinue construction contracts with the late Republican U.S. Senate candidate Hal Eckman for his pro-choice position on abortion then.