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Fr. Joel Barstad
Fr. Joel Barstad was raised in the Scandinavian Lutheran tradition where he developed a love for sung liturgy and the richness of a liturgical calendar. As a result of his encounter with the writings of the Greek Fathers during college, he and his wife Leslie were led into the Catholic Church in 1985. The fascination with the Christian East drew them further in until they decided in 1994 to make the Byzantine Catholic Church their canonical home. Since 2002 he has been a full-time faculty member at Saint John Vianney Theological Seminary. In October 2018, Fr. Joel was ordained a Byzantine Catholic priest.
