The Reverend Ann Bonner-Stewart, Rector

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The Reverend Ann Bonner-Stewart accepted our call to be our new rector in November, 2019. Ann is returning to the area after serving as chaplain at Saint Mary's School, an independent Episcopal all-girls boarding and day high school, in Raleigh, North Carolina since 2009. She was originally ordained in Boston in 2006. The Rev. Bonner-Stewart was born in and raised in South Carolina. She attended Duke University, where she earned a degree in Economics and studied abroad in China and France. After college, Ann moved to Boston to be in the third cohort of Micah interns in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts. As a Micah intern, she served at Saint Mary's Episcopal Church in Dorchester, who sponsored her for ordination. She earned a Master of Divinity, summa cum laude, from Yale Divinity School and a certificate in Anglican Studies from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Ann was ordained to the transitional diaconate in June 2006 at the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in Boston. Ann's first parish call was as associate rector at Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Greenville, North Carolina, where she introduced new worship services and created new systems for communication and administration. Ann has also served as a hospital chaplain in Bridgeport, Conn.; a guest theology instructor in Maseno, Kenya; and on the staff of Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church in Dallas, Texas.