Marko Culjak
| Birthday | June 28 |
| Ordination Year | 2024 |
| Home Town | Skokie, IL |
| Home Parish | Blessed Alojzije Stepinac in Chicago, IL |
| Undergraduate | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Accountancy) |
| Graduate Degree | Masters of Accounting Science |
| Previous Career | Public Accountant at Ernst and Young |
| Languages | English and Croatian |
| Hobbies | Praying, reading, watching and playing sports (especially soccer), exercising, and spending quality time with friends |
| Favorite Saint | St. John Vianney, St. John of the Cross, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Michael the Archangel and St. Thomas Aquinas |
| Favorite Devotion | Praying to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary |
| Vocation Story | After a personal encounter with Jesus in Medugorje during the summer before my freshman year of high school, I started to attend daily Mass. My yearning for Jesus grew throughout high school and into college as I lived at the Newman Center at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It was during my senior year at the Newman Center where I felt a calling to discern a vocation to the priesthood. As I tried to push the call away for 2 years, the desire for intentional discernment only got stronger. With the help of Our Lord and Our Lady, I finally accepted the call to attend seminary in order to further discern the priesthood of Jesus Christ. |
| How can Mundelein's donors and community pray for you? | Only to personally become a saint at all costs and push me to become one as well! |
