Brendan Barnicle

The Rev. Dr. Brendan Barnicle serves as Rector of St. Francis of Assisi Episcopal Church in Wilsonville, Oregon. He also serves as Vice President of the Board of Trustees of The Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. Prior to this, he was Rector of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Portland, Oregon, where his ministry was heavily focused on the unhoused, and he was a former Trustee for Church Divinity School of the Pacific and the Trinity Cathedral Investment Committee.

Prior to ordination, he spent 20 years working in investment banking, corporate law, and financial management. For most of that time, he was a Managing Director, leading equity research of the software industry at a major investment bank. In earlier roles, he advised on mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private financings both as an investment banker and as a lawyer.

He has combined his financial background with his ministry in academic work focused on faith and finance. In 2021, he published Financial Anxiety, and in 2022, he published Talking Dollars & Sense: Leading Theological Discussions on Money.

Father Barnicle was elected to serve his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He is pursuing a PhD in Practical Theology at Claremont School of Theology.

He received a DMin from Bexley Seabury, an MDiv from Church Divinity School of the Pacific, a ThM at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University, a JD from University of Washington, and a BA from Harvard University.