The Most Rev. Suheil Dawani, Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem, has appointed an American priest as his chaplain and a British priest as dean of St. George’s College.
The Rev. Donald D. Binder, rector of Pohick Church near Mount Vernon, will become Archbishop Suheil’s new chaplain and the Rev. Richard Sewell, rector of the Barnes Team Ministry in southwest London, will become dean of St. George’s College. Both will begin their appointments in October.
Binder has studied at St. George’s College and has served as scholar in residence at Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. He has also been part of the University of South Florida’s excavations at Sepphoris in Galilee. He and his wife, Christine, have three grown children.
Richard Sewell has worked for the Anglican mission agency United Society Partners in the Gospel as a mission educator and held responsibilities for USPG’s relationship with churches in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
He is married to JulieAnn and the couple have two grown children.
Adapted from ACNS
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.
