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Formation Faculty
Father Phillip J. Brown, S.S., J.D., J.C.D., was appointed Rector of Theological College earlier this year by the Provincial Council of the Society of St. Sulpice, U.S. Province, and assumed his position as Rector on July 1. Father Brown is a priest of the Diocese of Bismarck. He is a graduate of Theological College from the Class of 1989. Father Brown is both a civil and canon lawyer and previously served on the faculty at the School of Canon Law at Catholic University from 2006 to 2010. During this time he lived in residence at TC and provided spiritual direction to the seminarians as an extern minister. Prior to joining the faculty at Catholic University, he was assigned for five years to the faculty at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore. During that time he served as academic dean of the seminary program for two years. He earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Georgian University in Rome and served as a judge in the Marriage Tribunal in Bismarck from 1999 to 2001. He has served as both a parochial vicar and later as pastor of several diocesan parishes in Bismarck following his ordination in 1989 and before being released for seminary work at St. Mary's in Baltimore. Father Brown attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and received a bachelor's degree in music. In 1979 he received his degree in civil law from the University of North Dakota and practiced in Bismarck for six years before entering the formation program at Theological College. He served as a special assistant attorney general for the ND Pardon Board and Parole and Probation Department in Bismarck before entering private practice. As a lay attorney, his practice included areas related to child welfare and protecting the rights of abused and neglected children. In addition, he has also worked in the areas of domestic violence and addiction as both a priest and civil lawyer. He is a former member and senior consultor of the Board of Governors of the Canon Law Society of America and has chaired several Society committees. Since 2007 he has served as General Teasurer for the worldwide Sulpicians. Father Gerald McBrearity, S.S., S.T.B., M.A., D.Min. Father Gerald McBrearity, S.S. serves as vice-rector of Theological College. He was reappointed as a member of the formation faculty at TC in 2007. In addition to his responsibilities as vice-rector, he serves as Director of the Basselin Scholars, those college-level seminarians studying philosophy for three years at Catholic University. Father McBrearity is an alumnus of TC from the Class of 1973 and is a priest of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. He received his S.T.B. from Catholic University in 1971 and an M.A. in systematic theology in 1973. After spending a year in parish work and three years as a member of the faculty at St. Mary's Seminary & University in Baltimore, he returned to TC to begin his doctoral studies at CUA in 1977. He received his D.Min degree from Catholic University in 1982. The focus of his study was the history and practice of spiritual direction with special emphais on spiritual direction in the diocesan seminary. During this period, Father McBrearity served as a formation advisor at TC from 1978 to 1985. From 1986 to 1996, he served as Director of Field Education and the Pastoral Department at St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. An experienced formation advisor and spiritual director, Father McBrearity taught courses in spirituality and spiritual direction at St. Mary's from 1993 to 1996 and at the Oblate School of Theology in San Antonio, TX while serving as the spiritual director for Assumption Seminary from 1996 to 1999. He was then named vice-rector and formation advisor at TC in 1999 to 2003. He has also served as Director of Formation for the Society of St. Sulpice, US Province, since 1996. He currently directs the Institute for the Preparation of Seminary Formators, a program jointly sponsored by the Seminary Division of the Natl. Catholic Education Assn. (NCEA) and the Society. For seven years he served as Director of Personnel for the US Province, from 2004 to 2011. Father Martin J. Burnham, M.Div., S.T.B., M.A., B.A. Sulpician candidate Father Martin Burnham joined the formation faculty at Theological College in August, 2011 and serves as a formation advisor and spiritual director. A priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, he completed his formation at St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore and was ordained in 2002. He has a background in counseling psychology and has spent the past nine years in pastoral ministry in three archdiocesan parishes. Following ordination, he was assigned to St. Louis Church in Clarksville, MD for three years where he served as associate pastor to a parish community of 4300 families. As associate pastor he directed liturgical activities for 750 students enrolled in the parish school, served as a spiritual director for parishioners, and enrolled as Howard County Police chaplain. Next, he was named associate pastor at St. Margaret Church in Bel Air, MD, from 2005 to 2007, serving a parish community of 5300 families. Again, he served as a spiritual director to the parishioners, directed liturgical activities for the parish and school, and supervised seminarians assigned to the parish. In 2007 he was named pastor of St. Andrew by the Bay in Annapolis, MD, a parish community of 1500 families. He supervised a staff of 11 including pre-school personnel, served as State Chaplain of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and as Chaplain to the Knights of Columbus. In 2008, he was appointed to the faculty of St. Mary’s Seminary & University where he taught Introduction to Pastoral Theology. He received an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University in Baltimore in 1991. For 6 years (1991-1997) he worked as a child and family therapist at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore. During this period he was promoted through several levels of program leadership and management eventually serving as clinical supervisor of their partial hospitalization program where he supervised a staff of 10 clinicians and facilitated the treatment of 16 youth and their families. He graduated magna cum laude from Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, KY in 1989 with a B.A. in psychology and A.A. degrees in Theology and Philosophy. Father Anthony J. Pogorelc, S.S., M.Div., M.S., Ph.D. Father Anthony Pogorelc, S.S. is a formation adviser and spiritual director at Theological College and serves as Director of Pastoral Formation. He earned his Ph.D. in the sociology of religion from Purdue University in 2002. He received a bachelors degree from St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas in 1977. He received a M.Div. degree in 1987 from St. Michael’s College of the Toronto School of Theology. He was ordained in 1988 for the Archdiocese of San Antonio. He is an associate fellow in the [Life Cycle Institute] at Catholic University and adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Sociology. As a sociologist of religion, he specializes in the study of social movements, organizations and professional ministry. He is a member of the religious studies working group at the [Life Cycle Institute]. He also teaches in the Department of Sociology at Catholic University, including a course in social problems that draws on the resources of policy specialists from the USCCB as well as participants in community organizations. Father John J. Slovikovski, Ph.D., M.Div, M.A. Sulpician candidate Father John Slovikovski joined the formation faculty at Theological College in 2009. He recently completed work on his doctoral dissertation in moral theology at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa., in May, 2011. He serves as a formation advisor and spiritual director at TC. He was ordained in 1996 for the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown. Before joining the faculty at TC, Father Slovikovski was pastor of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Duncansville, Pa. from 2004 to 2009. During this period he was chaplain and theology instructor at Mount Aloysius College in Cresson from 2000 to 2009, and served as vice-principal and chaplain of Bishop Carroll High School in Ebensburg from 1998 to 2000. Earlier he was an associate priest at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Altoona for two years following ordination. He received an M.Div. degree from Saint Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, graduating summa cum laude, in 1994. He received an M.A. in systematic and moral theology from St. Vincent Seminary, graduating summa cum laude, in 1996. Father David D. Thayer, S.S., S.T. L., Ph.D. Father David Thayer, S.S. , a member of the formation faculty at Theological College since 1997, also directs the Intellectual Formation program. From 2002 to 2007 he served as vice-rector. He served as the Director of Liturgy from 1997 to 2007. A priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford, ordained in 1975, Father Thayer has been serving on Sulpician faculties since he was a deacon. He has earned both a master of sacred theology (STM) and a licentiate degree in sacred theology (STL) from St. Mary’s Seminary & University in Baltimore. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Pennsylvania State University in 1982. Along with advising and spiritual direction, Father Thayer is a faculty member and lecturer in the School of Theology and Religious Studies and in the School of Philosophy at Catholic University. He was elected as Third-Consultor for the general administration of the Sulpicians in [year] and serves as associate director of formation for the U.S. Province. [He chairs the East Coast Admissions Committee of the ...]. He is a member of the Society's Commission for the Research of Sulpician Sources and Traditions, and Editor-in-chief of the Bulletin de Saint-Sulpice, a Sulpician journal for priestly formation. Father Thayer has lectured extensively and published frequently on the French School of Spirituality. Father James Froehlich, OFM Cap, M.A., Ph.D. Father Jim is a Capuchin-Franciscan friar from the Pennsylvania Province of St. Augustine. He was ordained in 1982. He attended St. Fidelis College & Seminary in Herman, Pa. and received a B.A. degree in counseling psychology in 1974. He later became a member of their seminary faculty as a teacher of classical language and a resident high school seminary formator. He made his permanent profession of vows into religious life in 1976. He received an M.A. in theology from Washington Theological Union in 1981. He served as parochial vicar at a parish in York, Pa. while in graduate studies in pastoral counseling at Loyola University in Baltimore during the 80s. Throughout his formation, Fr. Jim has pursued various volunteer social service experiences focusing on youth; the mentally and physically handicapped; indigent elderly; economically deprived and others. His formal clinical pastoral education training as a chaplain is recognized by the USCC National Association of Catholic Chaplains. He later served as a member of the formation faculty at Borromeo College Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio from 1986 to 1989 where he was a professor in the psychology department. From 1989 to 1992, he served as vocation director for his province, as provincial admissions board member, and as a member of his provincial formation council. From 1992 to 1998, he served on the post-novitiate formation team and as treasurer at Capuchin College in Washington, D.C. For the next seven years, while pursuing a Ph.D. in pastoral counseling, he served as provincial postulancy director, and as a director of an inter-provincial Capuchin novitiate preparation program in Wilmington, De. He has extensive experience in seminary admissions and recruitment; candidate assessment and evaluation; and in pastoral formation and counseling. Father Jim joined the formation faculty at TC in 2009 and serves as a formation advisor and spiritual director. In addition, he supervises small group formation with first and second year theologians. Father Daniel Greenleaf '95, M.A., S.T.B. Father Daniel Greenleaf, an alumnus of Theological College, Class of 1995, is a priest of the Diocese of Portland in Maine. He joined the formation faculty at TC in 2009 and serves as a formation advisor and spiritual director. He also directs the Liturgy Program at TC. Father Greenleaf served with the diocese for 12 years before returning to Rome to complete his studies in sacred theology in 2007. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology in spirituality from Angelicum: Pontificia Universita S.Tommaso d'Aquino in Rome. Father Greenleaf served as pastor of Holy Cross Parish and as administrator of Holy Family Parish and the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine from 2004 to 2008. He also served as administrator of St. Joseph’s Church in Lewiston from 2002 to 2003, and was parochial vicar of St. John’s Church in Bangor from 1995 to 1997. He has a wealth of experience in youth ministry, having served as a diocesan chaplain for youth ministry, and as a teacher and chaplain at a local diocesan high school while being assigned as diocesan Vocation Director for the Diocese of Portland. |
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