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 The Reverend J. Barrington “Barrie”
Bates became the 19th priest and the 9th Rector of the Church of the
Annunciation on July 1, 2007. Barrie
was ordained in 1997 in San Francisco,
after receiving his Master of Divinity degree from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, in Berkeley, California.
Barrie
initially served as the Episcopal Chaplain at San Francisco State University and as an assisting
priest at St. Francis’ Episcopal Church in San Francisco.
He moved East in 1999 and served in several positions in Westchester and New York before joining the
Church of the Ascension in New York's Greenwich Village in 2002.
In addition to the
Master of Divinity , Barrie also holds a Master of Arts
degree from Graduate Theological Union, an STM degree from the General
Theological Seminary in New York, and a
Master's in Philosophy from Drew
University in Madison,
New Jersey, and he is currently a
doctoral candidate in Liturgical Studies at Drew University.
Barrie’s outreach background
includes forming a separate outreach corporation for Ascension, serving
on the Advisory Committee of the Food Bank for New York City, and service as a founder
and continuing board member of Episcopal Response to AIDS. He
also served as a volunteer chaplain at the World Trade
Center site after
the September 11th terrorist attack.
He co-authored a liturgy article based upon his work at the World Trade Center.
Prior
to entering Divinity
School,
Barrie
graduated from Boston
University
and worked for 19 years as a computer programmer and database
administrator, mostly at Harvard
University. He has also appeared as a priest in the
NBC series Third Watch. Barrie’s
interests include music, gardening, reading, beer making, pickling
things, and he is a fan of Star Trek Voyager.
Barrie and his
partner, Jamie MacKenzie
(a communications consultant), live in the rectory. See his personal web
site for even more (www.barriebates.com).
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