Rev. Jacob holds a bachelor of Science degree in Biology from the University of Kerala, India.   In 1984, he received a Masters Degree in Divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia.  He later went on to do his graduate studies at Drew University in Madison, NJ and graduated with a Ph.D. in Liturgics and Homiletics.  He was ordained a Deacon in 1984 and to the Priesthood in 1985 for the Diocese of Newark.  He served at the Church of the Resurrection in East Rutherford, NJ as a Vicar from 1985-2000 and, later on, became rector of St. Paul’s and Resurrection Church in Wood-Ridge, NJ. 

 In 1998, he received “the Priest of the year award” (Canterbury Scholar Award)  from the diocese of Newark and was sent to Canterbury, England for studies in Anglicanism. Fr. Jacob has been teaching in Unification Theological Seminary, NYC as an Adjunct until 2006.  He was later appointed the Director of Field Studies and the Assistant Professor of Ministerial Studies and Homiletics. Shanta, Fr. Jacob’s wife, is a Professor of English at Union County College in Elizabeth, NJ. Their two daughters Anjana and Namita are married with children.  Anjana is a social worker in Baltimore and Namita is an Administrator for Princeton Review living in NJ.