Father Giles Pardue is a secular priest under the guidance of His Excellency, Bp. Mark Pivarunas. He was born in 1997 in Duluth, MN, but his family settled in Mobile, AL when he was 2 years old. He grew up in a Catholic family and attended diocesan schools K-12. He studied for 2 years in the School of Business at Auburn University before dropping out to attend Mater Dei Seminary in Omaha, NE. He attended his first Traditional Latin Mass during his first year of college in 2017. Through the daily Rosary, he found sedevacantism and attended Mass at St. Benedict Catholic Church in Laceys Spring, AL. He joined the seminary in September, 2018 and was ordained May 11th, 2023. Throughout his seminary career, he spent time in the summers with Fr. Francis in Lafayette, LA getting experience and receiving the Sacraments. After his ordination, he was allowed to return to the South and serve the Catholics of the Gulf Coast. He was placed under the care of Fr. Francis at Christ the King Catholic Church in Lafayette, LA, offering his first Mass there for the Feast of the Ascension, May 18th, 2023. Since that time, he has been assisting at Christ the King and with the missions of the Brothers of St. Francis of Assisi in Houston, TX, Pensacola, FL, Dozier, AL, Daleville, AL, and Gulfport, MS.