程明聰神父， 1972年出生於香港，1986年随隨家人移民加拿大。 在安省滑鐵盧攻讀大學期間，他經歷歸向耶穌的轉化，從此積極投入滑鐵盧華人天主教團體 及 ECCCLC （加拿大東岸天主教華人生活營，簡稱「加東」） 的工作。 程明聰神父於2005年在加拿大晉鐸，是第一位加入 十字架同行者修會 (Companions of the Cross) 的華人神父。目前，他是「加東」的神師，並積極參與《生命恩泉》的福傳工作。
Fr. Francis Ming Chung Ching was born in HK in 1972 into a Catholic family. His family immigrated to Toronto in 1986. During his undergraduate studies in Waterloo, he experienced a personal conversion to Jesus and became very active in his faith through involvement with Waterloo Chinese Catholic Community and an annual young adult retreat called Eastern Canada Chinese Catholic Living Camp (ECCCLC). He was ordained in 2005 and is the first Chinese ordained as a priest of the religious order Companions of the Cross. He is currently the spiritual director for ECCCLC (Eastern Canada Catholic Chinese Living Camp), and am actively involved in the Fountain of Love and Life Ministry, a Chinese Catholic TV and Radio programming.
Fr. Francis is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for his contribution to the Chinese Catholic Community.
