Mar 14, 2023
Join Cynthia today for another delightful Meet a Parish Priest segment. Cynthia speaks with Fr. Peter Jon Gillquist from All Saints Antiochian Orthodox parish in Bloomington Indiana. As we learn more about his life, we also get insight into how we can hear God and see Him working in our lives.
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Fr Peter Jon has served as senior pastor at All Saints Orthodox Church in Bloomington Indiana since 2006.
Born in Tennessee and raised in California, Fr Peter Jon moved to Alaska after high school, where he spent 6 years working, fishing, praying, reading, writing, singing and learning about life in general. In 1999 he moved to Pennsylvania, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Biblical Studies from Geneva College.
During this time he met his future wife, Kristina. A year into their marriage, they moved to New York where Fr Peter Jon received a Masters of Divinity degree from St Vladimir Theological Seminary.
Fr Peter Jon was ordained to the holy diaconate in August 2005 and then to the holy priesthood on February 2, 2006 – the feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. Later that year, Fr Peter Jon was assigned to All Saints in Bloomington, where he and Khouria Kristina raise their six children