The Rev. Anita Braden will join the Diocese of Arizona staff as canon to the ordinary on June 17.
Braden is currently the chaplain of St. Margaret’s, an all-girls Episcopal boarding school located in Tappahannock, Va. She is in the final stages of obtaining her Doctor of Ministry from Virginia Theological Seminary.
Braden brings to her new position experiences with large and small parishes in Washington, D.C., and Milwaukee, where she served on the diocesan staff as urban missioner from 1999 to 2004.
Matthew Townsend is a Halifax-based freelance journalist and volunteer advocate for survivors of sexual misconduct in Anglican settings. He served as editor of the Anglican Journal from 2019 to 2021 and communications missioner for the Anglican Diocese of Quebec from 2019 to 2022. He and his wife recently entered catechism class in the Orthodox Church in America.
