Parish of St. Hilda of Whitby
Meet Father John
Parish of St. Hilda of Whitby
Meet Father John
The Rev. John L. Roddy was born in Austell, Georgia, and attended the University of Georgia where he received a B.A. degree in Journalism. He served as an officer in the U.S. Army and in the U.S. Army Reserve, from which he retired in 1998 as a Lt. Colonel of Cavalry. Later he worked as a senior staffer in the U.S. Senate, and as a senior policy analyst with the U.S. Department of Education.
In 1995 he returned to Georgia, where he served as Director of Federal Programs in the Ga. Dept. of Education until 2000. Fr. Roddy attended Holy Rood Seminary in Liberty, N.Y., where he studied under the Most Rev. Archbishop Brother John-Charles Vockler, F.O.D.C. and the noted Canon Stephen J. Dibble. He was ordained to the priesthood in November 1999 by Archbishop Mark Haverland, Ph.D. Most recently Fr. Roddy has done graduate work in the School of Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.Fr. Roddy resides in Marietta, Ga., with his wife Carolyn, and their children Elizabeth, Tyler, Andrew, and Katherine.
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Last updated: July 28, 2009