Fr. Bob Reiser, SJ (NYK) is a native of Buffalo, NY and a 1986 graduate of Canisius College, with a BS in accounting. After a brief stint as a staff accountant at Peat, Marwick, Mithcell, and Co. in Buffalo, Fr. Reiser entered the Jesuit Novitiate at St. Andrew Hall, Syracuse, NY in the fall of 1986.
After professing First Vows, Fr. Reiser went on to First Studies at Fordham University in the Bronx, where he earned an MA in philosophy. During Regency he taught mathematics at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City, NJ.
Theology studies took him to Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, MA, and he was ordained to the priesthood at Fordham University in 1997. His first pastoral assignment after ordination was Director of Campus Ministry at Canisius High School in Buffalo. From 1999-2004, Fr. Reiser served as the Director of Vocations for the Maryland and New York Provinces.
Fr. Reiser then moved to Rochester, NY to graduate studies at the University of Rochester and to serve as Assistant to the President of McQuaid Jesuit High School. He earned an MS in educational administration in 2006, and with degree in hand, moved to California for Tertianship. His Tertianship experiment took him from sunny California to the colder climes of Alaska. (Read Fr. Reiser's reflection on his Tertianship experience.)
Upon completion of Tertianship, Fr. Reiser was named President of St. Peter's Preparatory School, in Jersey City, where he professed Final Vows in the spring of 2007.