Archdeacon Baer’s work is concentrated in the areas of transition ministry, assisting the bishop in congregational and clergy care, liaising with convocation commissions and committees, organizing clergy events, and representing the Convocation to the wider Episcopal Church in various administrative areas and in ecumenical and interfaith dialogues. He also assists from time to time at the cathedral in Paris.

Archdeacon Baer is currently vice president of Province II of the Episcopal Church (known as the “International Atlantic Province of the Episcopal Church”), composed of the dioceses in New York, New Jersey, Europe, Haiti, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, and Puerto Rico, is part of the Convocation’s General Convention Deputation, and serves the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on Ecumenical & Interreligious Relations.

Ordained deacon and priest in the Diocese of Milwaukee in 1985, he has served in four dioceses and currently makes his home in Paris and Vienna.