The Rev. Brandt L. Montgomery currently serves as the Associate Rector and All School Chaplain of the Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Lafayette, Louisiana. Prior to this appointment, from 2012-2014, he served as the Curate at Canterbury Episcopal Chapel and Student Center at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Brandt received a Bachelor of Arts in Music, specializing in trumpet performance, from the University of Montevallo in Montevallo, Alabama in 2007. In 2012, he received a Master of Divinity (cum laude) from The General Theological Seminary of The Episcopal Church in New York City, for which he wrote the thesis Time’s Prisoner: The Right Reverend Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter and the Civil Rights Movement in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama. He is currently studying for the Doctor of Ministry degree at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.
Brandt’s scholarly interests lie in the areas of American religious history, Episcopal Church history, the Oxford Movement and Anglo-Catholicism, the Civil Rights Movement, and practical theology. As a musician, his interest lies in 1930s-1950s instrumental jazz.
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