Fr. Brian Doerr was born in February of 1965, in Enid, OK, as his father was training in the US Air Force. Later his family settled on a small farm east of Pendleton, IN. He graduated from Purdue University in 1987 with a degree in Agriculture Economics. Following college he worked as a staff member for Senator Richard G. Lugar in Washington, DC, and later for the Indiana House of Representatives.
Responding to a call to the priesthood Fr. Doerr received when he was seven years old, he attended the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH, graduated in 1998, and was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Lafayette. His first assignment was as Associate Pastor of St. Joan of Arc Church in Kokomo, Indiana.
He then served as the Director of Vocations for the Lafayette Diocese from 2000 to 2011 and as Vice Rector of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, from 2011 to 2016. He had the opportunity to celebrate a weekly Mass for the Daughters of Charity in Emmitsburg, and did so in the basilica (and on the tomb) of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Before coming to St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church in Carmel, he served as the pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church on the campus of Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Fr. Doerr is the co-founder of the Frassati Society of Young Adult Catholics, Chaplain and Co-Creator of the Knights of the Holy Temple, founder of Those Catholic Men and Exodus 90, is a member of the Knights of Columbus and served on the Board of Wilderness Outreach.
When not ministering in the church, he enjoys canoeing, camping, history, reading, hiking and retreats to the Appalachian Mountains. After ten years of research, he published “The Massacre at Deer Lick Creek,” in the Indiana Magazine of History in the Spring of 1997.
