Father Anthony Roeber, Attached

The Rev. Dr. Anthony Roeber attended The Pontifical College Josephinum from 1963 to 1969 and earned his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Denver, an A.M.and Ph.D. at Brown University and an M.A. in Applied Orthodox Theology from the Balamand University, Lebanon. He taught at the University of Denver, Princeton, Lawrence University, the University of Illinois-Chicago, the Chicago-Kent Law College, and from 1996 to 2017 at Penn State University, University Park where he served as department head for ten years and is now Emeritus Professor of History and Religious Studies. He served concurrently as Co-Director, Max Kade German-American Research Institute, and co- editor of the Max Kade Book Series, PSU Press. He is currently Professor of Church History at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, Yonkers, New York. He is a past president of the Orthodox Theological Society in America. His most recent publications include the co-authored Changing Churches: An Orthodox, Catholic, Lutheran Theological Conversation (2012); Hopes for Better Spouses: Protestant Marriage and Church Renewal in Early Modern Europe, India, and North America (2013); Mixed Marriage: An Orthodox History (2018); and the edited volume Human v. Religious Rights? German and U.S. Exchanges and their Global Implications (2020).

He served on the editorial board of The Journal of Moravian History and was co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology (2016). He has just completed The Orthodox and the Rights Revolution in America ( in submission, 2020). An Orthodox priest of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, he served as interim pastor of St. George Orthodox Church, Altoona, PA, was then attached to St. Mary Orthodox Church, Johnstown, PA and was second priest at All Saints of North America, Maryland Heights, Missouri. He is now a priest of the Orthodox Church in America and serves at St. Michael’s Orthodox Church in St. Louis, MO.

Married to Patricia A. Stutzman-Roeber, M. Ed. who teaches special needs adults and children, they have three children: Maria, a Nurse Midwife who served as missionary in Tanzania and now practices in St. Louis, MO, Mother Macrina, of Holy Assumption Monastery, Calistoga, CA, and Christian, a mental health nurse and writer who lives in Pasadena, CA.