Newly ordained Bishop Jeffrey S. Grob was the presider at the 5:00 PM Saturday Mass on November 21 at St. Joseph Catholic Church. Bishop Grob was ordained by Cardinal Cupich on November 13, along with two other Archdiocesan priests, Fr. Kevin Birmingham and Fr. Robert Lombardo. Bishop Grob has been appointed auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Chicago and the Vicar for our area, Vicariate I.
He was born on March 19, 1961, in Madison, Wis., to Bonnie (Meinholz) and the late Gerald J. Grob. He grew up on a dairy farm near Cross Plains, Wis. He attended St. Francis Xavier Grade School in Cross Plains and Holy Name High School Seminary in Madison. Bishop-elect Grob attended St. Meinrad College in St. Meinrad, Ind., and graduated from the Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio, in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in religious studies. He spent a year at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. before earning a master of divinity degree in 1992 from the University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary in Mundelein, Ill., where he was also awarded a Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1999. Bishop-elect Grob earned a Licentiate in Canon Law and a doctorate in Canon Law from St. Paul University in Ottawa, Ontario, in 2000 and 2007, respectively. He earned a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Ottawa in Ottawa, Ontario, also in 2007.