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Franciscan Friars elect new leadership

ARCHDIOCESE — During their provincial chapter at St. Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana, the Cincinnati-based Franciscan Friars of St. John the Baptist Province recently elected a new leadership team.

Father Jeffrey Scheeler, OFM, was elected provincial minister. Father Scheeler, a native of Cincinnati, attended St. Francis Seminary in Cincinnati and Duns Scotus College in Southfield, Mich., and received master’s degrees from the University of Dayton and St. Leonard College (in Centerville).

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Father Jeffrey Scheeler

For the past nine years he has been vicar provincial for the friars. He formerly was pastor at St. Monica-St. George Parish in Corryville and served with the friars’ governing body, the provincial council. After ordination he served in campus ministry and parish work in Texas and Indiana, and was director of novices at St. Anthony Friary in Cincinnati.

Father Scheeler, 56, entered the Franciscan Order in 1973 and was ordained a priest in 1980.

Father Frank Jasper, OFM, was elected vicar provincial. Since 1992, Father Jasper, 61, has been a practicing psychologist in Indianapolis. For the past year, he has served as visitor general for the Franciscan Province of the Sacred Heart based in St. Louis, Mo.

He entered the Franciscan order in 1966 and was ordained in 1973. A native of St. Bernard, he holds a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Detroit.

Elected to the friars’ provincial council for three-year terms were Franciscan Fathers Mark Soehner, William Farris, Dennet Jung and Brother Michael Dubec.

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