 Jackels was consecrated bishop at the Church of the Magdalen in Wichita on April 4, 2005.Born in Rapid City, South Dakota, on April 13, 1954, Jackels frequently moved as a child of a military family from Wyoming to Spain to California before settling in Nebraska to complete his secondary studies.He reports that as a young man he renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, but returned to Catholic practice after reading a Bible given to him by a Protestant co-worker in the dishroom of a country club.