Peter M. Donohue OSA is an American academic administrator and Roman Catholic priest who was inaugurated as Villanova University's 32nd President on September 8, 2006.
Ordained in the Order of Saint Augustine in 1979, Donohue received his Master of Arts degree in theater from the Catholic University of America in 1983 and a Master of Divinity degree from Washington Theological Union in 1985.
He was conferred a Doctor of Philosophy degree in theater from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1990, while also managing the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
[2] His early years as an educator were spent serving the St. Augustine Parish in Andover, Massachusetts, and at Archbishop John Carroll High School in Washington, D.C. From 1985 through 1990, he was an instructor in Villanova's Theater Department.
He has served as a resident hall minister and as chaplain of Villanova's renowned Naval ROTC program, and presides over their annual commissioning Mass.