Richard Thomas Biernacki is Founder and Minister General of the Brotherhood. A member of the American Guild of Organists, he serves as Director of Music and Organist at Aldersgate United Methodist Church, East Brunswick, New Jersey, and is a member of Christ Episcopal Church, Middletown. He is an honorary canon of the Diocese of Honduras. He is a Knight Commander in the Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem Grand Priory of Russia. He is on the National Board of the The English Speaking Union, USA; is a Regional Chair and Chair of the National Membership Committee, and is President of the Monmouth County Branch.

John Nidecker (Born March 30, 1913; Professed November 22, 1976; Died June 20,1988), a retired White House staffer, was a tireless servant in the church and the Brotherhood. He was formative in the creation of the Vestment Exchange, The Servant, and in the educational program of the community.

James Teets is the Brotherhood’s Treasurer and Director of Public Relations and also serves as Master of Ceremonies. He made his First Profession of Vows in 1977. He assists at Saint James’ Fordham, the Bronx, as well as holding the position of Deputy Inspector of Elections for the Diocese of New York. He is an honorary canon of the Dioceses of Honduras and Liberia, an Officer of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, and member of the Board of Managers of the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society of The Episcopal Church. After serving for almost 24 years at the Episcopal Church Center in New York City on the staffs of three Presiding Bishops, he retired at the end of 2009. His career was in the field of missiology.

Luke Anthony Nowicki is a member of Mount Calvary Episcopal Church, Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, where he serves as a Eucharistic Minister and sometimes leads Quiet Days, assists with Tuesday Evening Prayer and at times leads Bible Study.

John Peter Clark (Born March 28, 1950; Professed September 13, 1981; Died February 25 1994) served the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in New York City for many years as verger. He was employed as a social worker for the City of New York.

William Francis Jones co-founded and served as first “Guardian” of Fessenden House in 1995, and he has recently re-joined the residential staff there. Now semi-retired, he is the compiler for the Morehouse liturgical calendars and works part time for CUNY at LaGuardia College in the Program for Deaf adults.  He is a member of the Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, New York City.

Stephen Storen is a member of Saint Ignatius in New York City, where he is active in a number of parish ministries. He is head of regulatory compliance of the distribution arm of the asset management sector of a large financial services firm. He is a Commander Brother in The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem and a member of the Priory Chapter. He serves on the boards of the New England Society of New York City, the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the New York City Mission Society, the Saint George’s Society of New York, the Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, The British Schools and Universities Foundation and on the Advisory Council of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations.

Thomas Joseph Ross (Born July 5, 1943; Professed January 2, 1982; Died December 18, 2001) served as Minister Provincial of Province 5, as a Deacon in the Diocese of Southern Ohio, and as an accounting officer for Christ Church Cathedral, Cincinnati.

Tobias Stanislas Haller is Vicar of Saint James’ Fordham, the Bronx, a Deputy to General Convention and member of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of New York. He is an Officer of The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, a contributor to The Chicago Consultation, Deputy to General Convention, and Chair of the House of Deputies Study Committee on Chuch Governance and Polity. He serves the Brotherhood as Secretary and Publications Coordinator. He is an iconographer and composer, and his book, Reasonable and Holy, was published in March 2009 by Seabury Books. He was appointed as a member of the Anglican Communion’s Continuing Indaba and Mutual Listening Process Reference Group in August 2009.

William Bunting (Born March 25, 1931; Professed September 12, 1982; Died October 12, 1988) was a long-time member of Saint Andrew’s, the Bronx. He served as the Minister Provincial for Province 2. He was a career employee at Saks Fifth Avenue.

Charles Kramer (Born May 25, 1935; Professed September 16, 1984; Died October 23, 2006) was first linked with the Brotherhood as a Companion (Associate) and later entered the community as a brother. Charles retired from a finance career in the mid-90’s and devoted his retirement to a variety of interests including parish work at Saint Matthew’s, Woodhaven, Long Island, and leadership in the fraternity of the Masons.

Bernard Fessenden (Born November 12, 1946; Professed March 9, 1985; Died August 10, 1993) is remembered in the ongoing work of Fessenden Recovery Ministry, a residential facility for men in recovery. He served in the Diocese of Massachusetts.

Edward Munro retired at the end of 2004 from his service as Episcopal Port Chaplain in Baltimore, Maryland. He serves as Deacon at Saint Christopher’s in Linthicum Heights, Maryland, and as a Jubilee Ministry Site Visitor.

Donovan Aidan Bowley retired from the Drinking Water Program of the Department of Environment Protection in Massachusetts and now lives in Maine, where he is an active member of Saint Thomas, Camden. He is involved with EFM, intercessory prayer, parish hospitality, and outreach.

Edward Riley (Born March 5, 1940; Professed March 12, 1988; Died September 15, 2005) was the first priest to join the Brotherhood of Saint Gregory. He served in Europe and the Diocese of Chicago, and as a member of the Brotherhood Council and as Director of Education. After retiring from parish ministry he continued to work as a pastoral counselor.

Christopher Stephen Jenks is the Executive Director of Fessenden House, a group home in Yonkers, New York, for men in recovery from severe drug and alcohol addiction who are also dealing with severe medical problems and/or psychiatric disorders.

Ciarán Anthony DellaFera is a 4th year medical student at UMass Medical School in Worcester (Class of 2012), and plans to do his residency in full-spectrum family medicine with a focus on the urban underserved.Ciarán is a former IBM Distinguished Engineer and member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He worships and serves at the altar at Church of the Advent, Boston.

Damian-Curtis Kellum (Born August 25, 1932; Professed August 4, 1990; Died October 9, 2007) served as Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children (CASA) for the 20th Judicial Circuit in Arkansas, and on the board of directors of Dove House, a woman’s shelter, on the Hot Line and as liason to the Department of Human Services.

Richard John Lorino is a Board Certified Chaplain and Director of The Department of Pastoral Care at White Plains Hospital, White Plains, New York. He serves as Organist and Choirmaster at Saint John’s, South Salem, New York. In 1995 he founded Fessenden House in Yonkers, which, for several, years provided housing for men living with HIV/AIDS.  Fessenden House now provides housing for men in recovery. 

Ronald Augustine Fox is the Director of Vocations for the Brotherhood. He is the senior Master of Ceremonies and liturgical coordinator at Church of the Atonement, Chicago, and serves as clerk of the vestry. He is the Executive Assistant to the Dean, as well as to the Vice President, at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Chicago.

Maurice John Grove retired from a long career in sales and hospitality and now lives in the Philippines, where he assists the local village community in small-scale economic development. He is active with the church and helps spread the Gregorian Way in the South Pacific.

Charles Edward LeClerc is currently Deacon at Saint Paul’s, Concord, New Hampshire. His ministry includes outreach to the dying, estranged, and bereaved on the margins of society and the institutional church.

Virgilio Fortuna serves at Church of the Holy Spirit, Fall River, Massachusetts as a Eucharistic Minister. He works at Brockton Hospital as a Nursing Assistant in the outpatient department, which provides free clinical care to people unable to afford a doctor. He is a candidate for ordination to the diaconate.

Gordon John Stanley is Deacon at Saint Peter’s, Chicago. A retreat leader, author and teacher, he has conducted Bible Study and Lenten retreats at many Chicago-area churches. A member of the North American Association for the Diaconate, he participates in ongoing discussions on the role of the diaconate in the ELCA and the United Methodist Church.

Karekin Madteos Yarian lives in San Francisco and is the Minister Provincial for Province 8. In addition to providing Spiritual Direction, he is an author, poet, and social activist. His parish is St. John the Evangelist, where he is an occasional preacher. He works as the Project Manager for Electronic Products at Church Publishing Incorporated. Karekin is also the Vice President of the Recycled AIDS Medicine Program (RAMP) which provides donated HIV medications to clinics in the developing world, including Central Africa, Honduras, Guatemala, Chile and Ecuador. He lives with his husband Anthony and their two dogs and is the subject of the award winning documentary film “Changing Habits” directed by Sarah Needham.

William David Everett serves the community as Director of Postulants and Novices. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attends Trinity Church, Copley Square, in Boston. He is the Director of the Guild of Boston Artists.

Thomas Bushnell is a member of St. Mark’s in Glendale, California, and a recipient of the PhD in philosophy from UC Irvine. He works as a software engineer for Google, and serves as the Brotherhood’s Director of Education.

Thomas Mark Liotta is the Minister Provincial of Province 2 as well as the Brotherhood’s Administrator, arranging and coordinating all the community’s official meetings and Convocations. He is the Music Director and Deacon at Saint James’, Goshen, New York, and Spiritual Care Counselor for Hospice of Orange and Sullivan Counties.

James Mahoney is Director of The Nyack Public Library in Rockland County, New York, pursuing a career that he began in high school. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute (MLS) and Manhattan College (MA Religious Studies). A board member of his local Rotary Club, he has chaired their campaign for participation in the international Rotary Foundation. At Saint James’, Goshen, New York, he teaches adult education courses. He is the Brotherhood’s Archivist and Representative to the National Association of Episcopal Christian Communities (NÆCC). He is one of two Chapter Representatives to the Brotherhood’s Council.

Patrick Ignatius Dickson (Born March 17, 1938; Professed July 23, 1999; Died July 20, 2005) served until his death at Fessenden House, a group home in Yonkers, New York, for men in recovery from severe drug and alcohol addiction.

Robert James McLaughlin serves at St. Mark’s, Philadelphia, at the altar as an acolyte and thurifer. He serves the Brotherhood as one of Chapter’s two Council representatives and as Cellarer.

Peter Budde is recently relocated to Austin, Texas. He serves the Brotherhood as a member of the Education Committee.

John Henry Ernestine is a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Cranford, New Jersey, where he serves as homilist, a visitor to the sick and is active in a number of other parish ministries. John Henry is a Knight of Honor in the Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem Grand Priory of Russia. He is currently a student at Providence Theological School where he is completing a Degree in Theology.

Francis Sebastian Medina is a Chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of St. John the Evangelist, San Francisco, where he volunteers in the office, serves as an Acolyte and Eucharistic Minister, and as coordinator of the Pastoral Care Team.

Ælred Bernard Dean is part of the fulltime staff as well as a member of Church of The Epiphany, Atlanta, where he serves on several committees as well as assisting in planning the liturgical life of the parish. He is also a graduate student working on his Masters degree in Social Work at Valdosta State University and is a volunteer at the Open Door Community, part of the Catholic Worker Movement taking Matthew 25:35-45 as their call to ministry. He also writes theological articles on the intersection of Christianity and social justice for Hospitality. He is married to Dr. James M. Elledge; they live with their two puggles in Atlanta.

Joseph Basil Gauss is a Registered Nurse working in a Telemetry Unit at Northshore University HealthSystem – Skokie Hospital in Skokie, Illinois. He co-chairs the Parish Health Outreach at the Church of the Atonement, Chicago, as well as serves liturgically. Br. Joseph Basil also sings in the choir at St. Peterʼs, Chicago. He is one of two Minister General’s Representatives to the Brotherhood’s Council.

Mark Andrew Jones is priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas Church in Pompano Beach, Florida, part of the Diocese of Southeast Florida. At the diocesan level, Mark Andrew serves on the Clergy/Lay Insurance and Compensation Committee. Br. Mark Andrew is an attorney licensed to practice law in Florida and Illinois, and he is a Florida Supreme Court Certified Appellate, County and Family Mediator. He and his spouse, Diane, selectively accept private consulting engagements for alternative dispute resolutions services, employment investigations and assessments, management consulting, coaching, and training.

Richard Matthias, a retired LTC in the U.S. Army. He lives and works in Massena, New York, at River Respite Benedictory — a pastoral retreat center on an island in the Saint Lawrence River — with his wife Nancy, a Lutheran pastor.

William Henry Benefield is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and a Clinical Psychopharmacologist. He is an Officer of the The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Church of the Atonement, Chicago.

Nathanael Deward Rahm is Organist-Choirmaster and Administrative Assistant at Saint Peter’s, Chicago, and is one of the BSG Community’s organists. He has served on the Diocese of Chicago Treble Festival Committee and the steering committee for the Leadership Program for Church Musicians Serving Small Congregations (LPM). He is the Brotherhood’s Minister Provincial for Province 5.

Thomas Lawrence Greer is Minister Provincial for Province 4. A lifelong native of Nashville, he is a Registered Nurse currently working as a night assistant nurse manager over a Cardiac Observation Unit and Vascular/Cardiac Surgical Step-down areas at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is a current member of Phi Theta Kappa and the Association of Critical Care Nurses. His parish is Saint Ann’s, Nashville, where he serves as Acolyte, Altar Guild member, Chalice Bearer, and in the Room in the Inn ministry. He is a student pursuing a Masters in Health Administration at the University of St. Francis. He is an Associate member of the International Order of Saint Luke the Physician and member of Nurses Christian Fellowship. He is the Brotherhood’s Convocation Infirmarian.

Enoch John Valentine is Senior Sacristan, and Facilitator of the Pastoral Care Committee at Saint John’s Cathedral in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition he is organist and choir director at Saint Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church, Cranston, and at Swan Point Cemetery. He is Minister Provincial of Province 1.

Ron Fender serves as the Outreach Case Manager at the Chattanooga Community Kitchen. His work includes advocacy, pastoral care, foot care, and case management for the homeless. Br. Ron is the founder and manager of the House of All Souls, a home for chronically homeless, disabled men. He attends Saint Paul’s Church, Chattanooga, where he serves as a lay reader.

Michael Elliott (Born February 27, 1938; Professed July 26, 2008; Died February 8, 2012) taught Practical Theology at universities in New Zealand, Great Britain, India and Africa and retired in 2009 to his hometown in New Zealand, from where he worked internationally as a consultant in the design, development and delivery of programs of theological education including with the Newcastle School of Theology for Ministry in Australia. In New Zealand he served on a local committee planning the construction of the Chapel of the Lone Pilgrim to serve as a tranquil place of pilgrimage and reflection for searchers from all faiths and none.

David Luke Henton is Clinical Assistant Professor and Field Director for the School of Social Work at Texas State University. He is a Lay Reader, Eucharistic Visitor, and member of the Monday Night Prayer Group at Saint James’ in Austin, and is also active in numerous peace and justice organizations. He is the Brotherhood’s Chapter Representative for Continuing Education Grants and one of two Minister General’s Representatives to the Brotherhood’s Council.

David John Battrick studied in Oxford, England, was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Diocese of Perth, Western Australia, and currently serves as a member of the Bishop's Ministry Team as the Diocesan Ministry Development Officer in the Anglican Diocese of Newcastle, New South Wales (Australia). He combines this role with being the Director of the Newcastle School of Theology for Ministry. David John is an elected member of the Diocesan Council, Clergy Emoluments Board and the Parish Incumbency Board, and is the Chair of the Diocesan Ecumenical Commission. He is married to Luisa and has four young sons: Isaac, Malachi, Joshua and Nahum.

Will Harpest is a member of the Church of the Atonement, Chicago, where he serves as a member of the vestry and as an Acolyte, Usher, and Soloist. By profession he is an educator, having taught elementary students for over 30 years.

Bo Alexander Armstong is a communicant at Saint Thaddaeus Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and serves as Lay Preacher, Eucharistic Visitor, and Lector. He is married to Lynn and has two sons, Christopher and Devon. He is also the very proud grandfather of Adelaide. He works as an IT professional in the Chattanooga area.

Francis Jonathan Bullock attends All Saints Episcopal Church (Indianapolis, Indiana).  He is currently pursuing a Master’s of Social Work at Indiana University, Indianapolis. His future aspirations are to work for a non-profit as a licensed mental health practitioner. He currently works as an intern at Hillcroft, a non-profit agency serving adults with intellectual disabilities and or severe chronic mental illness.  His spouse is an ordained minister currently serving as an assistant to the rector for a local Episcopal parish through an ecumenical courtesy.  A few of Br. Francis’ hobbies include brewing beer, reading, counted cross stitch and baking.

Blane Frederik van Pletzen-Rands is a priest in The Episcopal Church canonically resident in The Diocese of Western New York, where he recently served on the staff of St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buffalo. A native of Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), he has lived in South Africa (where he served in the South African Defence Force during Apartheid), England (where he served as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), and Hawaií (where he taught English and World Religions at Brigham Young University-Hawaií in Laíe, Oáhu.) He and Scott van Pletzen-Rands married in KwaZulu-Natal in the RSA in 2000. Scott works for the Episcopal Church Center in Manhattan from their home in Buffalo supporting the Mission Program Office as website content manager. Their daughter, Esmé Camille van Pletzen, lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

James Patrick Hall serves among Tulsa, Oklahoma’s poorest people, helping feed the homeless weekly in one of the city's parks, and leading ministry with the homeless in a downtown shelter and the city jail. He also serves on the Housing Faith Alliance, helping connect homeless people with local faith communities and build lives in Christ. At St. Patrick’s, Tulsa, Br. James Patrick serves as a Eucharistic Visitor, teaches occasionally in the Adult Education program, and leads Theology Pub once a month. With a passion for cross-cultural mission, he also serves on the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma’s Companion Relationship Committee with Uruguay.

Novice Millard Cook is Executive Assistant to the Rector of Saint Bartholomew’s, New York. He was a Benedictine monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, and served for 12 years as a Roman Catholic priest (mostly in the Archdiocese of New York). He has also worked as an educator, and as a technical support trainer and technician for relational databases. He describes his reception into the Episcopal Church by Bishop Catherine Roskam as one of the most meaningful experiences of his adult life. He is an avid amateur photographer, reader, and music lover.

Novice Richard Edward Helmer is Rector of Church of Our Saviour, Mill Valley, California. He serves the Diocese of California and the wider church as secretary of the diocesan Standing Committee, and as secretary to the California deputation and alternate deputy to General Convention. He has written for Episcopal Café and serves as webmaster for the BSG website and the website for BSG Province 8. A classical pianist, Richard Edward performs and accompanies regularly in recitals around the San Francisco Bay Area. He and his wife, Hiroko, and their children, Daniel and Mari, enjoy road trips together along the California Coast.

Postulant Eric Shelley lives in Roanoke, Virginia, and attends Christ Episcopal Church, where he serves on the vestry, altar guild, and as an acolyte and thurifer. He is also a delegate to the annual Council of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. He is a registered nurse on the Neurosurgery team at Carilion Clinic.

Postulant Larry Reich serves on the vestry and as verger in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is an Education for Ministry (EFM) graduate, and advocates for victims of violent crime. He currently works for Ruby Falls in Chattanooga.