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Date of Ordination: June 8, 1996
Influences: Fathers Ray Fisher, John Blaser, and James Bacik, and the late Father Russell Gillig, all priests of the Toledo, O., Diocese, and the late Father Jerome “Jerry” Neufelder, his spiritual director during seminary,
Interests: Genealogy, tinkering with computers, reading, mostly in the suspense-mystery genre and authors like John Grisham and James Patterson.
Best thing about priesthood: Celebrating a sacrament like baptism, explaining the signs and symbols, and seeing everyone’s faces light up as they get what it’s about. |