About Fr. Rob Kroll, SJ

Fr. Rob Kroll was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the third of four children of Richard and Mary Jane Kroll. He eventually received a BS degree from Georgetown's School of Foreign Service in 1987, and entered the Society of Jesus. In 1989, he spent one year in the Jesuit Humanities Program at Creighton University in Omaha, then three years of philosophy and theology studies at Centre Sevres, the Jesuit school in Paris. He performed full-time ministry Marquette High School, his alma mater, for three years before finishing a MDiv degree in 1999 at Weston Jesuit in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was ordained a priest, spending another five years at Marquette High as a teacher and coach. He completed Jesuit formation (tertianship) in Sydney, Australia in 2005, pronouncing final vows in 2006. He was a pastor on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation from 2005-07, He was associate director at Demontreville retreat house from August 2007 to August 2010. In May 2012, he obtained a Master's in clinical psychology from the Institute for the Psychological Sciences, a Catholic graduate school located in Arlington, Virginia. Since July 2012, he has been the local superior at Creighton Prep in Omaha, Nebraska.