08/25/2022
Bishop Brookhart will be bishop-in-charge of St. John's Cathedral after Deans Mark Kowalewski and Dan Ade retire this autumn.
A Message from Bishop Brookhart - Beginning in September you and I will be traveling together as the cathedral parish. With the departure of Fr. Mark and Fr. Dan after seventeen productive years, I will be serving among you as Bishop-in-Charge until the end of January 2023. I am eager to be with you in this time of transition and change.
I will be leading liturgies, preaching, looking after your pastoral needs, working with the vestry and staff, and a host of other things. I am sure you will miss the co-deans, and you may be grieving and feeling fear and confusion. Added to that, we do not know each other very well. I assure you that I will be present to help and support you as best as I can. I am certain I will make some errors and mistakes. But through it all I ask that we focus on Jesus Christ, crucified and risen, knowing that he will be will us in sacrament, scripture, prayer, and our life together. He will bring life and hope out of the grief and fear we may feel.
To help you know me here is a very brief biography. I was born in West Virginia and went to school in Ohio, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania. I served four, diverse kinds of parishes in Ohio and West Virginia before being elected Bishop of Montana in 2003, ministering there until my retirement in 2018, Over the years I have taught undergraduate, graduate, and seminary courses, and am the author of four books. I have held a wide variety of posts on the local, diocesan, and national church levels. My wife Sue is a former college professor and educational consultant. We have been married forty-eight years and have two daughters. We now live in Culver City.
I ask you to introduce yourself to me, and to let me know about any special needs or good ideas you may have. And I will be praying for you every day as I hope you will do for me.
