Reverend Frederick W. Klotter serves as rector of the Cathedral of the Assumption.

Father Klotter, born in Louisville, studied at St. Meinrad College Seminary in St. Meinrad, Ind., and attended major seminary at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md. He was ordained on May 25, 1996.

Since ordination, he has served in the Archdiocese of Louisville as pastor of St. Martin of Tours Church (now Shrine of St. Martin); as associate pastor of St. Aloysius Church in Pewee Valley and St. Augustine Church in Lebanon; as sacramental moderator of St. Francis Xavier Church in Raywick, Holy Cross Church in Holy Cross and St. Francis of Assisi Church in St. Francis. He has also served as an assessor for The Metropolitan Tribunal and as a member of the Collegial Chapter of Canons for The Shrine of St. Martin of Tours.