Lawrence Eugene Brandt

As a child, Brandt would pretend to celebrate the mass using a small workbench as an altar, Necco Wafers as hosts, and one of his father’s architectural manuals as the lectionary.

He went back to Rome in 1983 to obtain his Doctor of Canon Law degree from the Pontifical Lateran University, audited by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

He received his episcopal consecration at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Greensburg on March 4, 2004, from Cardinal Justin Rigali, with Bishops Anthony Bosco and Donald Trautman serving as co-consecrators.

[3] On July 13, 2015, Pope Francis accepted Brandt's letter of resignation as Bishop of Greensburg, to be replaced by Father Edward Malesic.

[1] On October 10, 2019, Brandt and the Diocese of Greensburg were sued by a woman who had alleged that she had been raped beginning at age 12 by George Pierce, her parish priest, in 1972.