Monsignor Stephen Doktorczyk, JCD, a priest of the Diocese of Orange, California, a canon lawyer, is the co-founder and Spiritual Director of the Foundation of Prayer for Priests. Ordained to the priesthood in 2005, Msgr. Doktorczyk worked in the grocery business and human resources prior to entering seminary, earning a Master of Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach, in 1998. While in formation for the priesthood, he earned a Bachelor's degree in Sacred Theology in 2004 from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome and a Licenciate in Canon Law from the Pontifical Gregorian University, also in Rome, in 2007. He served as parochial vicar at St. Joachim Church in Costa Mesa from 2007-2011 and concurrently as Adjutant Judicial Vicar. From 2011 to 2016 Msgr. Doktorczyk was an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Vatican City and Adjunct Spiritual Director at the Pontifical North American College, also in Rome. In 2016, Msgr. Doktorczyk earned his doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. From 2014 to 2022 he served as Vicar General and Moderator of the Curia for the Diocese of Orange. In 2023 he became the pastor of St. Martin de Porres Church in Yorba Linda, California.