Our Rectors

former and present clergy of the parish and chapels

I hesitated to put up this page. There are parish rectors and chapel rectors and associates and in-charges and they come and go (none stay so long as Mr Gunne, in the parish 1845-1872, pictured above and buried now in St Matthew’s cemetery – lo, I am with you always). Somebody will be missed – but not on purpose. So I’ll leave it to you – I shall find whom I can and ask you surfers to send whom you can and we’ll see how the page shapes up.

So far we have thirteen. In the words of Dr. Gary Badcock, theologian and professor at Huron College, that’s a “schism of priests.” A wag of my acquaintance outside the parish suggests it takes only one for this… A priest who wishes to be anonymous suggests a “circumstance of clergy” (to go with the “pomp”) and a professor asks whether there might be a “surplice of priests” (only, one supposes, when there are too many). She also, as a member of the United Church of Canada, suggests a “waffle of United Church ministers.” This is getting to be fun!

The Reverend Heather Robinson (also Church of the Advent, Ridgetown, and Church of the Redeemer, Highgate, 2000 - 2002, also Parish of the Transfiguration Associate 2002/03) (find her now at St James, Brantford)

and the Reverend Jack Beedle (also Christ Church, Dresden, and St Stephen’s, Thamesville, 1995 - 2002) (find him now at www.churchofsaintjude.ca)

Priests-in-Charge

Parish of the Transfiguration

2002

The photo at right of Jack and Diane Beedle was taken at the 2006 anniversary service at St Stephen’s, Thamesville, by the Rev’d Bill Craven.

The Reverend Dr Greg Gilson

Rector

Parish of the Transfiguration

2002 - 2004

(find him now at http://caledonia.anglican.org.index.html)

The Reverend Michelle Collins-Wongkee

Priest-in-Charge and Associate

Parish of the Transfiguration

2003 to present

(at right with the Reverend Zaza Roloti from our

South African companion diocese in 2006)

The Reverend Stephen Demitroff

Rector

Parish of the Transfiguration

2005 to present

(at right with wife, Ruth, in 2006)

And the Chapel/Old Parish Pairings Rectors:

The Reverend Sylvia Doran

Christ Church, Dresden,

St Stephen’s, Thamesville,

and St Peter’s, Moraviantown,

1989 - 1995

(pictured here in 2006 in Thamesville, and right

with the Reverends Jack Beedle, Michelle Collins-Wongkee and Bill Craven)

The Reverend John Lombard

Christ Church, Dresden,

St Stephen’s Thamesville,

and St Peters, Moraviantown,

1976 - 1989

The Reverend Fr Bill Craven

Christ Church, Dresden,

St Stephen’s, Thamesville,

and St Peters, Moraviantown,

1970 - 1976

(find him now at http://ca.geocities.com/billcraven@rogers.com/)

His church’s website, for which he is webmaster/developer, can be found at

http://ca.geocities.com/billcraven@rogers.com/TrinityCampbellsCross.htm

Photo at right is of Bill and Beth Craven taken at the 2006 anniversary service at St Stephen’s, Thamesville.

The Reverend Fr Don McLean Aitchison

St Matthew’s, Florence,

Grace Church, Bothwell, and

St John’s-in-the-Woods, Aughrim,

1996 -1999

(find him now at www.tcs.on.ca)

The Reverend Fr John Stephens

St Matthew’s, Florence,

Grace Church, Bothwell, and

St John’s-in-the-Woods, Aughrim,

1991 - 1995

(find him now at http://www.stphilipsdunbar.com/)

The Reverend Kent Gardiner

St Matthew’s, Florence,

Grace Church, Bothwell, and

St John’s-in-the-Woods, Aughrim,

1987 - 1991

Church of the Advent, Ridgetown,

Church of the Redeemer, Highgate,

1996 - 2000

The Reverend Canon David Pickett

Church of the Advent, Ridgetown,

Church of the Redeemer, Highgate, and

Trinity Church, Howard,

1992 - 1995

(find him now at www.3cantors.com)

Look – scads of space for more!

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