Rev. Brandon Kleckner

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Brandon M. Kleckner is the son of Neal and Cathy Kleckner of Erie. He is a 2004 graduate of Villa Maria Academy in Erie, and earned a bachelor of arts in philosophy from Gannon University, Erie, in 2008. He earned the master of divinity degree from Saint Vincent Seminary in 2012. He also received the Omer U. Kline, O.S.B., Homiletics Award, chosen by the Rector’s Council, which is given to the fourth-year student who has most clearly demonstrated excellence in preaching during his fourth year of study.

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St. Joseph/St. Mary/St. Michael is his third pastorate since being ordained in 2012. He spent much of my priesthood in Clearfield as a Seminarian; then as a Deacon (where he would drive up from Latrobe every weekend throughout the school year); then his first priestly assignment was in Clearfield as a Parochial Vicar; then when his pastor got ill, he was named Administrator. After that run, he left for two years (100 weeks to be exact) to go to St George, Erie, as a Parochial Vicar. At the end of those 100 weeks, he got assigned, again, to St Francis in Clearfield to be their pastor, where he served for 5 remarkably rewarding years!  In 2022 he got the call to go to St Michael Parish in Greenville with its mission of St Margaret, Jamestown. In August, 2025, Fr. Brandon was assigned to St. Joseph/St. Mary/St. Michael.