The Rev. Dr. Paul A. Jacobson
In July 2020, the Rev. Dr. Paul Jacobson was called as Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Muncie. Within the Diocese of Indianapolis, he sits on the Executive Council and the Disciplinary Board.
Fr. Jacobson came to Muncie from Fairfield County, CT, where he served as the Minister of Music & Organist at Fairfield’s First Church Congregational, Chaplain at the Greater Bridgeport Mental Health Hospital, and Priest in Charge at Grace Episcopal Church in Trumbull.
He has served the Church as a pastor, musician, educator, and writer for more than forty years. As a musician, he has worked in parishes from more than a half-dozen denominational traditions.
A native Midwesterner, he received a BA in Music (Organ Performance) at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. He was a George Marshall Fellow at The Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, studying with Grethe Krogh (organ) and Dan-Olof Stenlund (choral conducting). Fr. Jacobson earned dual Master’s degrees in Organ Performance and Religion through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied organ with Gerre Hancock and Charles Krigbaum; and liturgy with Aidan Kavanagh and Jeffrey Rowthorn. He has taught at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul (MN), and the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley (CA).
His PhD is from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where his dissertation topic was Amalarius of Metz and liturgical history in the Early Middle Ages.
Fr. Jacobson came to Muncie from Fairfield County, CT, where he served as the Minister of Music & Organist at Fairfield’s First Church Congregational, Chaplain at the Greater Bridgeport Mental Health Hospital, and Priest in Charge at Grace Episcopal Church in Trumbull.
He has served the Church as a pastor, musician, educator, and writer for more than forty years. As a musician, he has worked in parishes from more than a half-dozen denominational traditions.
A native Midwesterner, he received a BA in Music (Organ Performance) at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois. He was a George Marshall Fellow at The Royal Danish Conservatory of Music in Copenhagen, studying with Grethe Krogh (organ) and Dan-Olof Stenlund (choral conducting). Fr. Jacobson earned dual Master’s degrees in Organ Performance and Religion through the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he studied organ with Gerre Hancock and Charles Krigbaum; and liturgy with Aidan Kavanagh and Jeffrey Rowthorn. He has taught at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul (MN), and the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley (CA).
His PhD is from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, where his dissertation topic was Amalarius of Metz and liturgical history in the Early Middle Ages.