Rev. Eric Sundrup, S.J., was elected to the Marquette University Board of Trustees in 2026.

He serves as the vice president for mission and ministry and as the university chaplain at Xavier University.

He previously served as associate vice president for mission and ministry at Xavier from 2023-2024, and as pastor of the campus’ Bellarmine Chapel from 2019-2023.

Father Sundrup entered the Society of Jesus in 2003 after completing his undergraduate degree at Xavier University. During his formation, he worked in a number of Jesuit high schools in the United States as well as Peru. Father Sundrup has a master’s degree in philosophy from Loyola University Chicago and a master of divinity degree from the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. He was ordained in 2014 and worked as a campus minister and as the director of Hispanic ministry for St. Mary Student Parish at the University of Michigan.

He is one of the founders of The Jesuit Post, a website and social media outreach project targeting 20- to 30-year-olds. That work led him to the Jesuit review America Media, where he worked from 2016-2019 as an associate editor focused on podcasts and partnerships.