Fr. Grant Brodrecht, Sub Dean

Fr. Grant was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. After high school he served six years in the U.S. Navy as an electronics technician and eventually fourteen more years in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He met his wife Kelli in Dallas, Texas, and they have five children and six grandchildren. After leaving the Navy, Fr. Grant attended the University of Northern Iowa, where he double-majored in history and philosophy. The family then moved to the Boston area, where he worked as a supervisor for United Parcel Service overnight and studied church history and historical theology by day at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. After earning an M.A., he and the family moved to South Bend, Indiana, where he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in American political, intellectual, and religious history from the University of Notre Dame. Fr. Grant has taught various history courses at The Geneva School for the last twenty years, and he is also the author of Our Country: Northern Evangelicals and the Union during the Civil War Era (Fordham University Press, 2018), a book that explores the interrelationship among religion, presidential politics, and the nation during the Civil War and Reconstruction. Since coming to St. Alban’s, he has served as an usher, a lay reader, and Senior Warden, and he was ordained as a deacon in the APA in September 2020 and as a priest in August 2025.

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