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The Reverend Susan J. McCone received her M.Div degree from Yale Divinity School in 1999 where her studies were concentrated in theology and ethics, with a special focus on church state relations. She received an Anglican Certificate from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in 2000. While at Yale, Mother McCone served as the first intern assistant to the Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives where she researched and wrote the first history of the Congressional Chaplaincy established in 1789.
Mother McCone was ordained to the priesthood in 2003 by The Right Reverend Andrew D. Smith. Mother McCone has been affiliated with St. John's as an Assisting Priest since the spring of 2003. She has previously served as Curate at Christ Church, New Haven from 2000 to 2003; the Episcopal Chaplain to Vassar College from 2003 to 2005, an appointment of the Bishop of New York; Priest-in-Charge of St. John's, Bristol, Connecticut until January 2007 and later Priest at Christ Church, Watertown, both appointments of Bishop Smith.
Since 2007 she has also served, and continues to serve, as Director of Mission Funding for the Episcopal Church in New York City. She serves as a member of Committee II of the Diocese of Connecticut which is responsible for overseeing the ordination process from Candidacy to Priesthood. She also serves as Executive Director of Affirming Anglican Catholicism which was established by the Archbishop of Canterbury and The Right Reverend Frank Griswold, formerly Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.
A 1971 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Smith College, Mother McCone majored in Government and wrote her honors thesis on the "Religious Roots of James Madison's Political Thought." She earned a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1974 and practised law at Sullivan and Cromwell as a securities litigator until she left in 1980 to form her company, Jonal and Co., a fashion design and retail business on Madison Avenue in New York City. She closed the business in 1994 to attend seminary and seek holy orders.
Mother McCone and her husband, Robert P. Wessely, an international mergers and acquisitions lawyer, have had a home in Litchfield County for over 25 years and currently live in Washington with their two cats, Seamus and Archie. |
Assisting PriestSt. John's is fortunate, indeed, to have the services of the Reverend Canon John Andrew as an Assisting Priest. Born in England and educated at Oxford where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in Theology at Keble College, Father Andrew was ordained to the priesthood in 1957. He served as Senior Chaplain to Archbishop Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury and subsequently as Vicar and Rural Dean of Preston in Lancashire, England. During this time Father Andrew preached throughout England and the United States, including several visits to St. Thomas Church in New York City at the invitation of the then Rector, Frederick Morris. In 1972 Father Andrew was installed as the 11th rector of St. Thomas Church and served there until his retirement. He was made an Honorary Canon of New York in January 1995 shortly before his retirement, and awarded the Order of the British Empire later that same year. He returned to England, traveling and preaching for a number of years after retiring, but re-located to the United States in the late 1990s and now makes his home in New York City where he continues to serve his former parish as an Assisting Priest. |
AdministratorIsobel Moore, our Parish Administrator, can be found in the parish office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Isobel brings a wealth of administrative experience to the office coupled with a knowledge of the Episcopal Church gained from years of service in her own church where she has served as Clerk of the Vestry and Co-Director of the Altar Guild. She currently serves as a lay reader and intercessor. |
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