Fr. Juan Ochoa

Fr.  Juan Jose Ochoa was born in Jalisco, Mexico. Since age four, he felt called by God to become a priest. 

Fr. Juan attended Mother of Sorrows School and Cathedral High School in Los Angeles. After graduation in 2005, he entered the Juan Diego House in Gardena, the formation house for college seminarians. He earned a B.A. at Cal State Dominguez Hills in 2009. Upon graduating from college, he entered St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo. On May 31st, 2014, he was ordained a priest for the archdiocese of Los Angeles at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. He  served as associate pastor at St. Emydius Church in Lynwood, July 2014 – June 2-16. He was also associate pastor at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels and Master of Ceremonies to Archbishop Jose Gomez, July 2016 – June 2019. Since June 1st 2019, Fr. Juan has been at CTK as the administrator, 2019-2021, and since July 1st, 2021 the pastor of  CTK. He is also the Director of the Office for Divine Worship for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, since Feb. 2021.