12/28 People & Places

Appointments

• The Rev. Anne Carriere is chaplain to retired clergy and their families in the Diocese of West Tennessee.
• The Rev. Kim Crecca is deacon at St. Matthew, Tucson, AZ.
• The Rev. Candice Burk Frazer is rector of Ascension, Montgomery, AL.
• The Rev. Jay Gardner is rector of Grace, Cullman, AL.
• The Rev. Carol S. Gates is interim pastor at Lamb of God, Ft. Myers, FL.
• The Rev. Canon Ted Holt III is interim rector of St. Andrew’s, Nogales, AZ.
• The Rev. Nancy Lee Jose is interim rector of St. John’s, Wilmington, NC.
• Laura McGrew is communications manager for the Diocese of West Texas.
• The Rev. David W. Perkins is priest in charge of St. Mark’s, Clifford, VA.
• The Rev. Diane Pike is rector of churches in the Southwest Michigan Episcopal Covenant (St. Paul’s, Dowagiac; St. Paul’s, St. Joseph; and Trinity, Niles).
• The Rev. James Popham and the Rev. Jo Anne Popham are interim rectors of Grace, Monroe, LA.
• The Rev. Roxanne Ruggles is rector of Nativity, Maysville, KY.
• The Rev. Bonnie Smith is priest in charge of St. Thomas, Windsor, NC.
• The Rev. Bonnie Spencer is priest in charge of Holy Redeemer, Denver.
• The Rev. Ralph Strom is interim priest at St. George’s, Bradenton, FL.
• The Rev. Bruce Swinehart is rector of St. Mary Magdalene, Boulder, CO.

Ordinations: Deacons

• Louisiana — Caroline Patton Carson
• Milwaukee — Tyler Jason Humphrey and Melesa McEwan Skoglund
• Northwest Texas — Sarah Leann Wigner
• Pennsylvania — Michelle Workman Bullock and Charles Lattimore Howard
• Western North Carolina — Gaelyn Evangreene

Ordinations: Priests

• Alabama — Richelle Thompson
• Arizona — David Carlisle, Kelli Joyce, and Alison Lee
• Arkansas — Kevin Gore
• Central Florida — Robert Talmadge Griffith
• Connecticut — Brett Figlewski, Thomas Peters, and Benjamin Straley
• East Carolina — Stephen Batten and Adam Pierce
• Hawaii — Jasmine Hanakaulani Bostock
• New Jersey — John Francis Maher and Sharon Lee Patterson
• North Carolina — Vincent Kopp and Michael David Whitnah (for Pennsylvania), assistant to the rector of All Saints’, Concord
• Pennsylvania — Benjamin Charles Capps
• Southwestern Virginia — Kathryn A. Bast
• Tennessee — Robert Wesley Arning and Benjamin Keith Wyatt, curate at Trinity, Hartford, CT
• Western Michigan — Peter Carey Homeyer

Retirements

• The Ven. William H. Joyner Jr., as archdeacon of the Diocese of North Carolina
• The Rev. Canon Gil Stafford, as canon theologian of the Diocese of Arizona and interim rector of St. Peter’s, Litchfield Park