Donald S. Nesti

Rev. Donald S. Nesti, C.S.Sp.

Tenth President of Duquesne University of the Holy Ghost
In office 1980–1988
Preceded by	Rev. Henry J. McAnulty
Succeeded by	Dr. John E. Murray, Jr.
Personal details
Born	1936 (age 80–81) Monessen, Pennsylvania
Alma mater	St. Mary Seminary (B.A., 1959; B.D., 1964) Pontifical Gregorian University (S.T.L., 1966; S.T.D, 1970) University of Pittsburgh (M.A., 1976)

Donald Silvio Nesti, C.S.Sp. (born 1936) is an American Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit. He served as the tenth president of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1980 until 1988. He is the founder and current director of the Center for Faith and Culture at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas, and a professor of theology at St. Mary’s Seminary, also in Houston.

Donald Nesti was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania and raised in Clairton. He attended Pennsylvania State University for a year before entering the Holy Ghost Fathers' St. Mary Seminary in Norwalk, Connecticut. Nesti earned a bachelor's degree in 1959, and was ordained on May 30, 1963. He continued his education at St. Mary's, receiving a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1964. He also earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1966 and a Doctorate of Sacred Theology in 1970 from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In addition to his degrees in theology, he holds a master's degree in Italian from the University of Pittsburgh (1976), and did postdoctoral work at St. Edmund's College, Cambridge in 1972. He taught at Duquesne as a theology professor from 1970 to 1976, and has written two books and several articles on the relationship between the Catholic Church and the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).