Father Gary Linksy
Pastor
A native of State College, Pennsylvania, Father Gary Linksy holds undergraduate degrees in Marketing and Geography from Penn State University and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University, STB (M. Div Equivilent) in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University and a MS in Strategic Studies from Air University.
He was named an Honorary Canon by the Patriarch of Asia Minor and Archbishop of Izmir Turkey, while serving an Air Force Chaplain and Rector of the Archdiocesan Cathedral. Father Linsky spent over nine years as an Air Force health care administrator before entering seminary first at Saint Charles Borromeo in Philadelphia then the Pontifical North American College. He has served parishes in Columbia, Gaffney and Union and as an Air Force chaplain in assignments and deployments throughout the world.