Born April 10, 1950 in Fort Smith, Arkansas to a middle class working family, Gregory Alfred Pilcher, the eldest of four children, attended parochial school in the community. He went on to preparatory school at Subiaco Abbey & Academy in Subiaco, Arkansas where he graduated in 1968. In 1972, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Music and Organ performance from St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. The following year he professed vows as a Benedictine Monk at Subiaco Abbey. In November of 1976 he was ordained to the Diaconate. He completed his Master of Divinity (M.Div.) degree at St. Meinrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad, Indiana in 1978 and was ordained to the Presbyterate at Subiaco Abbey on April 1st of that year by The Most Reverend Andrew J. McDonald, the fifth bishop of Little Rock. In 1979 he joined the faculty at Subiaco Academy where he taught Music and Religion for the next fifteen years. Continuing his education at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana, he received a Master of Music Education (M.M.E.) degree in 1986. In 1994 he left Subiaco Abbey and assumed responsibility for Holy Redeemer Parish in El Dorado, Arkansas where he remained for the next five years. On December 1, 1999, he relocated to Holy Angels Convent in Jonesboro, Arkansas where he became Chaplain of the Olivetan Benedictine Sisters. In 2003 he returned to Holy Redeemer where he remains today. From 2004 to 2006 he was Adjunct Professor of Music at South Arkansas Community College (SACC), in El Dorado. He is a member of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Knights of Columbus 4th Degree, and a member of the Ministerial Alliance in the city of El Dorado. He holds professional memberships in the areas of music, history, charity, and heraldry.