Jeffrey Marc Monforton was born in Detroit on May 5, 1963, to Marc Louis Monforton and Virginia Rose (Ackerman) Monforton. He is the eldest of three sons.
Bishop Jeffrey Monforton attended Wayne State University, after which he entered Sacred Heart Major Seminary and subsequently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1989. He received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) in 1992 and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. Later, as a priest, he was awarded a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University.
On June 25, 1994, Bishop Monforton was ordained a priest at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament by Archbishop Adam Maida.
Following ordination, he served in the Archdiocese of Detroit as associate pastor at the National Shrine of the Little Flower, Royal Oak. Then-Father Monforton served as personal priest secretary to Cardinal Adam Maida from 1998 to 2005. In addition to his responsibilities to Cardinal Maida, he was a member of the Sacred Heart Major Seminary faculty and was a weekend assistant at St. Paul on the Lake, Grosse Pointe Farms, from 1998-2002, and St. Jane Frances de Chantal, Sterling Heights, from 2002-2005.
He served as pastor of St. Therese of Lisieux Parish, Shelby Township from 2005 until being named rector and president of Sacred Heart Major Seminary in August 2006. Also in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI conferred upon him the title of Monsignor as Chaplain to His Holiness.
He served as pastor of St. Andrew Parish in Rochester, Michigan, for only two short months before Pope Benedict XVI named then-Monsignor Monforton the fifth bishop of Steubenville on July 3, 2012. He was ordained and installed as bishop on September 10, 2012. On September 28, 2023, Pope Francis named him auxiliary bishop of Detroit.
His episcopal motto is, “Faith Comes From Hearing.”
