FATHER JOE GRBES, PASTOR

tel: (312) 842-1871

E-mail: JGrbes@gmail.com

Fra Jozo Grbeš

Fr. Jozo was born in Rama, Bosnia-Herzegovina on March 17, 1966.  As a child his family moved to Pozega, Slavonia, where he completed his first 12 years of schooling.  He joined the Franciscan Order in 1986 in Humac.  Fr. Grbes studied philosophy and theology at colleges in Sarajevo, Canterbury and London, England where he graduated in 1992.  He arrived in the United States on October 2, 1992 and was ordained a priest on February 7, 1993 at SS.. Cyril and Methodius Parish in New York.  He continued his pastoral duties in the same parish after his ordination while taking post-graduate courses at St. John’s University where he received a Master’s Degree in theology.  In 1996 he was transferred to St. Jerome’s in Chicago as assistant pastor where he is to this day.  He became pastor in 2001.  He is continuing  his post-graduate work in pastoral theology at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago.  

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