Father John Selleck was born in Roscoe, NY, son of a Doctor and an Irish Mother.  He was raised, along with eight other siblings, in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.  After graduating from Epiphany College in Newburgh, New York, he entered Our Lady of the Angels Seminary in Niagara Falls, New York in 1952.  He was ordained to the priesthood on June 15, 1957, for the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey.  After serving over 5 years in Atlantic City, New Jersey, he entered the U.S. Air Force in 1963.  In the course of over twenty-eight years of active duty, he served as a Chaplain in Korea, Japan, Thailand, the Netherlands, and various other locations until his retirement from Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, in 1991.

   Due to the shortage of priests, Fr. John asked the Bishop of Camden to make him a Missionary in the South. Therefore, he was sent to Northwest Florida where he served more than 9 years as Administrator in Blountstown and Wewahitchka. Father has served at St. Dominic's since August 2000, where he has devoted much of his time to the Prison ministry.