St. Michael's Midwest Conference for Youth

St. Michael's Staff

Bishop Hewett is the Diocesan for the Diocese of the Holy Cross, a traditional Anglican jurisdiction, and Rector of Church of the Transfiguration in Phoenix, PA. Raised in Philadelphia, Bishop attended Philadelphia and Episcopal Divinity Schools. He served as Curate of Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont before resigning with then Rector, Fr. George Rutler and leaving the Episcopal Church. In 1977, he helped Fr. Rutler begin a parish north of New York City. Bp. Hewett served in many states, including California, Arizona, Wisconsin, Washington D.C., and Virginia, establishing parishes, helping to train men for ordination, and doing networking. In 2005, he became the third diocesan bishop for the Diocese of the Holy Cross.

Fr. Gene Geromel has been the director of the conference for 15 years. He is rector of St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church in Swartz Creek, MI.

Rector of Grace Church in Galesburg, IL, and Canon Liturgist of the Diocese of Quincy, he is a graduate of UW-Stevens Point with a BA in Philosophy (with further studies in Natural Resource Management), and of Nashotah House, where he earned his MDiv. Originally from the Diocese of Fond du Lac, he also served in the Dioceses of Milwaukee and Albany. "Father Thomas" enjoys teaching in the Quincy Diocesan School for Ministry, and especially St. Michael's Conference.

Fr. Mike is rector of St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church in Tullahoma, Tennessee. He was formerly assistant at St. Peter's Episcopal in Columbia, Tennessee, after he graduated from Nashotah House.

        An Anglican priest in Canada and founding director of the Teen Health Center, Fr. Ken Jaggs  has walked the streets with troubled teens, worked with alcoholics and drug addicts and been chaplain and father confessor to myriad teens attending the conference. He is rector at St. George's Anglican Church in Walkerville, Ontario.

Father Kelly is a graduate of Nashotah House Theological Seminary, served his curacy at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, and was the Rector of St. Mary's Episcopal Church in Charleroi, Pennsylvania. Fr. Kelly is now rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Detroit, Michigan.

      Rector of St. George's Episcopal Church in Macomb, IL, Fr. Drummond has served as Diocesan Youth Director for the Diocese of Quincy.  He is also an accomplished musician.

All St. Michael's youth
counselors are young adults with a commitment to the Orthodox faith and most have been Michaelites themselves.

       Rector of Mt. Calvary in Baltimore, the Rev. Jason A. Catania, SSC graduated from Notre Dame, before entering the PhD.program in musicology at Washington U. St. Louis. Although raised Lutheran, Fr. Catania discovered Anglicanism and became an "extreme" Anglo-Catholic, a label he wears proudly. His master's thesis was on musical settings for Burial from the Book of Common Prayer. He completed his M.Div. spent a year at Nashotah House and was ordained deacon, serving at St. George's, Schenectady as curate. He was awarded the S.T.M. cum laude by Nashotah before being ordained priest by Bp. Herzog of Albany.  He became priest-in-charge of St. James', Lake Delaware, NY before he took up his duties at Mount Calvary in April 2006. He is Domestic Chaplain to Pope St. Leo the Great Cat.

        Fr. Geromel attended Virginia Military Institute for a year, graduating from Hillsdale College the next year. He has served on staff at St. Michael's Conference Ontario and Anglican Life Adventure Camp. He also directed an Altar Boys' Retreat for the Anglican Fellowship of the Delaware Valley for four years.
        Rector of St. Andrew's Anglican Church in Greenwood, S.C. he has published in Mandate and The Convent Society and recently had an article in Touchstone. His tract, "A Young Man's Views on Altar Servers", The Convent Society, reflects his commitment to youth.

      Fr. Sterne is chaplain of St. Theodore's Anglican Chapel, an outreach mission of the Anglican Church of the Epiphany in Columbia, South Carolina, where he also serves as an assistant.