Fr. Brian Campbell originally hails from the State of Illinois where he grew up as a young child until his family moved to the Naples area in the late 1980’s. Growing up in Southwest Florida, Fr. Campbell enjoys boating, swimming, running and various outdoor activities as well as travel. After graduating High School, Father attended Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Theology in 2002. During that time, he was discerning a vocation to the ministerial priesthood and in 2003 became a Seminarian for the Diocese of Palm Beach, FL.

As a seminarian he completed some important assignments for priestly training. These assignments included a year of Pre-Theology at St. John Vianney Seminary in Miami followed by four years of graduate theology at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, where he graduated with an M.Div. in 2009. Fr. Campbell was ordained by Bishop Barbarito to the Priesthood on May 2, 2009 and has served at St. Patrick Church in Palm Beach Gardens (2009-20012), St. Vincent Ferrer Church in Delray Beach (2012-2015), Chaplain to Pope John Paul II High School (2012-2013), Our Lady Queen of the Apostles in Royal Palm Beach (2015-2019), the Latin Mass Community of Holy Spirit Church in Lantana (2009-2019) and writing Sunday Word articles in The Florida Catholic Newspaper since 2015.

Beginning January 1,2020 he was assigned by Bishop Barbarito to be the next Administrator of our parish. As of April 1, 2021 he has been named our official Pastor.  Father Campbell looks forward to working  with the clergy of St. John’s to serve the needs of the people of God in the Western Vero Beach community. Fr. Campbell loves to teach about the Scriptures and is fully committed to Catholic Christianity as the fullest expression of historic Christian discipleship. He invites questions, meetings and visitations to get to know our community better.