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Rev. Ted Chase IV
Curate and Latino Missioner
During his nearly two decades
of priestly service to St. George's Church, Father Ted Chase has had
the principal responsibility for the parish's Spanish language ministry.
Over the past seven years, his original mandate of working almost exclusively
in this area has been expanded to include working much more closely
with the Rector in the Chinese- and English-speaking ministries as well.
In addition to covering the two Spanish language eucharists each week,
he also celebrates or preaches at the English masses on alternate Sundays
and at Chinese language masses occasionally.
Born in Philadelphia in 1947
and raised in mainline conservative Protestantism, Fr. Ted was converted
in his early teens to the catholic faith of the Episcopal Church at
St. Elisabeth's Church, South Philadelphia and Trinity Church, Ambler.
He was educated in public schools in Philadelphia and its suburbs, graduating
from The Haverford School in 1965, then went on to take his A.B. degree
in Latin and Greek at Lafayette College.
After completing the Master
of Divinity program at The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal
Church, Fr. Ted was ordained to the diaconate for the Diocese of Pennsylvania
in June of 1973 and then to the sacred order of priest for the Diocese
of Ecuador in Quito in December of that year. For three years, he served
the English language parish of St. Nicholas in Quito, worked with students
at the Universidad Central del Ecuador and prepared students for ordination
to the diaconate in the indigenous seminary at Tena in the Ecuador's
Amazon area.
Since his return to the United
States in 1975, Fr. Ted has lived and worked in the Diocese of Long
Island, serving various parishes in Brooklyn and Queens. He has also
worked as a teacher and administrator in parroquial school, as a high
school Spanish teacher and as and adjunct intructor of English for speakers
of other languages in the City University of New York. Currently St.
George's shares Fr. Ted with The Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew
in Brooklyn, and he is teaching a middle school Latin course at Brooklyn
Friends School.
Fr. Ted acknowledges that he
has received far more spiritual treasure from the people of God among
whom he has been privileged to serve--people whose stories, shared so
generously with him, have nourished his faith, carried him along in
troubled times and given him reason to continue in the sacred ministry,
and whose prayers and acts of kindness have renewed his strength like
an eagle's over and over again. His work as curate is guided by the
principle of making life as easy as possible for the rest of the parish
staff with whom he serves; his ministry as parish priest is inspired
by the motto of the city of in Extramadura, Spain: to create "a place
where no one is a stranger".
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