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In school, I was most interested in sports, football, basketball and baseball … and eventually girls.
I recognized how good God is and how good God was to me.
That was a very positive, happy time in my life; but my heart kept being attracted to the priesthood.
I came to Savannah to meet with Bishop Lessard, thinking I should probably go to the seminary, but came away from that meeting, convinced that I was not ready yet. During the time between those two assignments, Bishop Lohse studied canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, earning his licentiate in canon law, summa cum laude, in 2002.
He has continued to enjoy maintaining his family’s farm in McKean, where he grows apples, peaches, cherries, grapes, berries, and rhubarb. I was well provided for, had many opportunities and never lacked anything I needed, though my parents did not give me everything I wanted. Brett Brannen's Vocation Story
I was born in Louisiana but moved back to Statesboro, Georgia while I was young.
It is a clearly written 'how to' manual filled with solid advice for men discerning the priesthood. While in Rome, he also became an adjunct faculty member at Pontifical North American College and studied for his doctoral degree in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University. In 1995 he was appointed as vocation director for the Diocese of Erie, a position he held for five years, and which he held again from 2002 to 2010.
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Most Rev. Edward M. Lohse
Bishop Edward Mark Lohse was born in Erie, Pennsylvania, Nov. 23, 1961. In 2010, St. Vincent Seminary awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, and six years later, named him an Alumnus of Distinction.
On May 23, 2023, Pope Francis appointed him as the fifth bishop for the Diocese of Kalamazoo.
I lived in a rectory with Fr. John Cuddy, Fr. Richard Canty and Fr. Tom Murphy and I had a great time. His doctoral dissertation, Restricting the Right of the Faithful to Enter a Church for Divine Worship: Law and Jurisprudence, was published by the Gregorian University. And our priests did not seem that cool; they drove beat up old black cars and all I ever saw them do was say Mass on Sunday.
My mother was Catholic and my father was a Baptist. After that year, I knew that the answer was yes.
I returned to Mount St. Mary’s Seminary for three more years and I have never looked back again. Fr. Lucree told me when I was young that he thought I was being called to be a priest, and I knew deep down that he was right.
I had girlfriends through most of my high school years and we won the State football championship at Bulloch Academy in 1979.
James F. Murphy Award for Excellence in Philosophy from Gannon University in 1984 and the Diakonia Award for service from St. Vincent Seminary in 1987. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call” ~Pope Benedict XVI
Between Christmas New Years
You’ll be home in time to celebrate New Years:
Starts Friday, the 29th.
He even keeps the vintage tractor running in fine shape.
On June 14, 2024, Bishop Lohse received the additional appointment from Pope Francis as the apostolic administrator of Steubenville.
Fr. I prayed every night, I talked to Jesus and really tried to listen to His voice.
By age 10, I began to see signs that I was being called to be a priest.
I had two brothers and one sister.
There was no Catholic school so I attended CCD and was an Altar Server in a very tiny Catholic church.
To Save a Thousand Souls
By Father Brett Brannen
In what has been hailed as “a groundbreaking work” Fr. Brett Brannen compiles all the wisdom of a master Vocation Director into one volume.
He was ordained and installed July 25, 2023.
In his spare time, Bishop Lohse’s hobbies include gardening, traveling, and enjoying the outdoors.