Joseph A. Komonchak (born on March 13, 1939) is an American Catholic priest and theologian, ordained on 18 December 1963 for the Archdiocese of New York.
He attended Cathedral College in Brooklyn, and in 1960 received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Joseph's Seminary in Dunwoodie, Yonkers.
One of his instructors at the Gregorian was Jesuit theologian Bernard Lonergan, whom Komonchak credited with restoring his faith in the future of Catholic intellectualism.
Ordained in 1963, he did parish work along with college and seminary teaching, before joining the faculty at Catholic University of America in 1977; he had among his students Cardinal Tagle of Manila.
In June 2015 he received from the Catholic Theological Society of America the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor it bestows.