Fr. Jamie has been rector of St. Clement’s since 2004, having served previously in parishes in the diocese of South Carolina. He has sought to make the gospel of God’s love readily available to all the people of the parish, of all ages of all walks of every description wherever they are in their walk in faith through his personal involvement and through liturgical and teaching innovations.

 

A native of Charleston, S.C., he practiced law for ten years before being called to the ordained ministry while, after several years in a general practice, he was serving the legal needs of the poor in a rural part of the state. He received a degree of Master in Divinity (ordained deacon and priest in the diocese of South Carolina) and, more recently, a degree of Doctor of Divinity from the School of Theology of The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee.

 

He has been married to Melissa since 2012. He has two adult daughters, Emily and Susanna, from the marriage of his late wife, Eleanor, and two adult stepsons, Jacob and David.

 

He enjoys reading and writing, the outdoors, and walking in the Appalachians. He is an unashamed Anglophile having come honestly to it by a British mother and Scottish grandparents. His home is graced with a dog, Coco, and, for his sins, a cat named Remi.