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George has been Priest Associate since 2003. In March 2004 he celebrated
the 50th Anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. He retired
in 1978 as the pastor of Calvary St. Andrew's Parish, a bilingual
congregation in the south wedge neighborhood of Rochester, NY. Graduating
with an M. Div. degree from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in
1953, he served two rural central New York Episcopal churches before
coming to St. Luke's Church, Brockport. While serving at Calvary
St. Andrew's Parish, Bishop George Barrett and Bishop Robert Spears
appointed him a Canon for Metropolitan Ministry,a part-time staff
position. As part of his post graduate theological studies Fr. George
attended the Urban Training Center for City Mission in Chicago,
IL; the Centro de Documentacion in Cuernavaca, Mexico; Oxford University,
England; and St. Deniol's Library, Wales. He spent a one-year sabbatical
serving in an Episcopal Church in La Romana, Dominican Republic.
In
retirement, Fr. George, and his wife Anne, lived in Liverpool, England
for seven years. He taught a Pastoral Ministry course for active
clergy; lectured at Liverpool University primarily on the subject
of Liberation Theology in relation ministry in urban life.
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