Iowa priest named vice rector of Pontifical North American College

Published: 2007-05-08

DAVENPORT, Iowa (CNS) -- Father Robert Gruss, chancellor and vocations director for the Davenport Diocese, has been named vice rector for seminary life and director of human formation at the Pontifical North American College. The U.S. seminary in Rome is the alma mater of Father Gruss, who was ordained to the priesthood for the Davenport Diocese in 1994. Bishop Martin J. Amos agreed to release Father Gruss from the diocese for three to five years to serve at the college. The priest will move to Rome in August. Father Gruss "will guide the formation of more than 170 future priests from all over the U.S. as well as from Australia," said Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, head of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services and chairman of the college's board of governors.

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