Fr. Brian Bransfield, S.T.D.

Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield, S.T.D., is a priest of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. He served as General Secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2016 to 2020, having previously served as Associate General Secretary and Executive Director of the USCCB Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis. He holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. He has served on the faculty of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary and as a lecturer at The Catholic University of America and the Dominican House of Studies.