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Beth Long - Rector

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Before Beth Long came to us in May 2006, she was the rector of Trinity Lime Rock Episcopal Church in Lakeville, Connecticut.  Beth was born in Cyprus, and grew up an Episcopalian in Maryland. She obtained her bachelor's degree and master's in theology at the University of Toronto where she joined the Roman Catholic Church and spent the years subsequent to graduation with the Sisters of Our Lady of Sion, an order devoted to outreach, teaching, and the study of the Jewish roots of Christianity. During her years with the Sisters of Sion, she worked as a pastoral associate in a Roman Catholic parish in East Brooklyn where she first realized that she loved parish ministry. She returned to the Episcopal Church in 1986, attended Virginia Theological Seminary, and was ordained a priest in 1992. Before becoming the rector of Trinity Lime Rock in 1999, a beautiful and historic church in rural northwest Connecticut, she was the vicar (rector in Diocese of Atlanta terminology) of St. John's Church in Ashfield, Massachusetts. Beth's deep spirituality, inspiring preaching, long-time commitment to outreach, and infectious sense of humor have earned her the enthusiastic and overwhelming support of our parish.