A priest from Brooklyn, New York, Father Gerard Sauer has not only spread the word of God through ministry, but also taught as an adjunct professor in the Department of Theology at St. John’s University since 2006. In his role as a professor and priest, Father Gerard Sauer has taught undergraduate students in theology, coordinated international travel, and organized various groups.
Father Sauer’s responsibilities at the university include working with department leadership on implementing curriculum standards and goals. He chooses course texts, devises outlines for the course, prepares and grades student work, and participates in adjunct faculty meetings.
Outside of the university, Father Sauer has coordinated international faith-based pilgrimages to the Holy Land (Israel and Jordan), St. Peter’s, Vatican City, Florence, Assisi, and Piemonte. Other pilgrimages he has organized have included Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Canada, Portugal, the Philippines, and Panama. He has participated in the International Eucharistic Congress in 2008, 2012, and 2016, the World Meeting of Families in 2018, and World Youth Day in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2016, and 2019.
His community affiliations include memberships to the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre and the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn. Father Sauer earned a master’s in theology from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception.