Status | Active |
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Founded | 1998 [1] |
Founder | Matthew Pinto [1] |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | West Chester, Pennsylvania [2] |
Distribution | Worldwide |
Key people | Jonathan Strate (President) [3] |
No. of employees | 96 [4] |
Official website | ascensionpress |
Ascension (previously known as Ascension Press [2] ) is a publisher of Catholic books and digital media. The company, founded in 1998, is based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. [1] [2] Ascension's YouTube channel is called Ascension Presents, one of the largest Catholic YouTube channels in English, with nearly 973,000 subscribers and more than 160 million total views. [5]
Ascension began in 1998. In 2021, Ascension produced The Bible in a Year podcast with Mike Schmitz, which was iTunes' most popular podcast for 17 consecutive days in early 2021, and for 5 days in early 2022. [6] [7] In 2023, Ascension produced The Catechism in a Year with Mike Schmitz, which debuted as iTunes’ #1 podcast on January 1, 2023. [8] In 2024, Ascension produced The Bible in 10 Minutes with Mike Schmitz, which received over 1 million views in its first week. [9] Following the 2022 closure of USCCB Publishing, Ascencion served as a liquidator for the remaining stock of the publishing house. [10]
In 2025, Ascension, was selected by the USCCB, along with Word on Fire, to be one of two publishers for the 2nd American edition of the Liturgy of the Hours. [11]
Authors and presenters published by Ascension include Mike Schmitz, Jeff Cavins, Edward Sri, Matt Fradd, Jackie and Bobby Angel, Marcellino D’Ambrosio, Jason and Crystalina Evert, Tim Gray, Mark Hart, Miriam James Heidland, Josh Johnson, Danielle Bean, Sergio Serrano, Mark Toups, Christopher West, and Mark-Mary Ames. [3] [12]
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