I grew up near Biwabik, MN next to Lake Eshquaguma. I am the youngest of fourteen children. I enjoy golfing in the summer, hunting in the fall and cross country skiing in the winter. I went to college at St. John University in Collegeville and I went to St. Paul Seminary. After ordination in May of 1998, I was an associate pastor at Mary, Mother of the Church in Burnsville, MN until September of 2001 when I became pastor of St. Albert’s in Albertville, MN. In 2003, I also became pastor of St. John the Baptist parish in Dayton, MN until I left those two parishes to become pastor of St. Michael’s, St. Michael, MN in August of 2009. I am blessed to have received another 6 year term as pastor of St. Michael and also, once again pastor of my former, nearby parish, St. Albert in Albertville.