ABOUT ST. JOHN'S

St. John's Anglican Church is a Parish of the Anglican Province of America, part of 85 million Christians worldwide who call themselves Anglican. We trace our roots to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Church of the Apostles and proclaim that unchanging faith.

We are a community of faithful believers that believe and profess the gospel of Jesus Christ in the living tradition of the traditional Anglican Church. Our spirituality is rooted in scripture, prayer, evangelism, the celebration of the Eucharist, and sharing in the sacramental life of the Church. Our theology and liturgical language are anchored in the Holy Bible and the 1928 Book of Common Prayer.

We believe in the authority of the Bible, and that salvation is possible only through Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. In worship, we use the traditional Anglican Liturgy contained in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, which includes readings and Psalms from the Bible, as well as prayers and affirmations of faith that date from the beginning of Christianity.

The congregation actively participates in the mass. We express our devotion to our Lord by kneeling when we pray, sitting when lessons and Psalms are read from the Bible, and when we receive the Sermon. We stand when hearing the Gospel and when singing hymns of praise to our Lord.

We are a community of believers with varying backgrounds, interests, and experiences, but in Jesus Christ, we are made one body. We welcome visitors by showing forth God's gracious invitation to taste and see that the Lord is good.

Please feel free to contact our parish office or one of our clergy should you desire more information.

OUR CLERGY

THE MOST REV’D. CHANDLER HOLDER JONES, SSC

-Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America-

The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones SSC is Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States and Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America.

A native of Surry County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv), with graduate studies at Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, he has been priested for twenty-five years and has served congregations in Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia. He has also studied English literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford, England, and Anglican history at the King’s School, Canterbury Cathedral. A convert to the Continuing Anglican Church movement, he has been a Continuing Anglo-Catholic for over thirty years. He was consecrated to the Episcopate as Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese in 2010 and was elected Bishop Coadjutor in 2019. He became Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese in July 2021. He has been married for twenty-one years to Megan Baskwill Jones - together, they have four children.

THE REV'D. FATHER MARK MENEES

-Rector-

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THE REV'D. DEACON KEVIN KEVIN ISLEY

-Deacon-

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