Father Gerard Knapp, C.Ss.R.

Father Gerard Knapp, 65, was born and raised in Baltimore. He professed vows in 1968 and was ordained a priest in 1975. He has master’s degrees in religious education and divinity from Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus.

In 1984 he received a licentiate in sacred theology from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and for seven years taught theology, liturgy, and biblical Greek. He has served as the province’s assistant procurator and procurator, and he earned a master’s in business administration from St. John’s University.

In 2008 Father Knapp was named rector and pastor of his home parish, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Baltimore. When the parish merged with the predominantly Spanish-speaking St. Michael the Archangel Parish in 2011, a bilingual pastor was named, but Father Knapp remained rector of the Redemptorist community.