Clergy
parish priest
Fr. Thomas Ricks
Fr.Ricks is a native North Carolinian who returned home in 2017 after many years of living in other places. He holds degrees from Duke University, Christendom College, and The Catholic University of America and is a veteran of the United States Army. Fr. Ricks is a bi-vocational priest, serving as what he calls a "self-supporting missionary priest" (a bit like the Apostle Paul?) while making his living as an executive in the software industry. He is a married man and the father of eight sons and three daughters. With his upbringing in the Free Will Baptist tradition and fourteen years spent in the Roman Church, Fr. Ricks relates easily to people from a wide variety of backgrounds.
Diocesan bishop
Archbishop Mark Haverland
Ordained to the priesthood in 1982, he served for twenty-four years as rector of St. Stephen's Church, in Athens, Georgia. In 1998, the then Father Haverland was elected and consecrated as Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the South, succeeding the late William O. Lewis. At the XVI Provincial Synod in 2005, he was elected to succeed the retiring John Charles Vockler as Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Anglican Catholic Church.
