The Reverend Samuel Lee Wood, Assistant to the Rector

Fr Wood has an MDiv from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, and a post-graduate diploma in Anglican Studies from Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. He and his wife, Renee, both hail from Mississippi, where Fr Wood attended law school and clerked for a federal magistrate judge before going to seminary in 2000. Renee has a BA and Masters of Accountancy from the University of Mississippi, and has worked as an accountant at Cone, Incorporated in Boston and at the Grocery Manufacturers Association in Washington, DC.

After discovering the Episcopal Church and being confirmed while at Gordon-Conwell, Fr Wood was ordained a deacon in the Diocese of Massachusetts in June 2007. On behalf of the Rt Rev’d M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE, the Rt Rev’d James W. Montgomery (retired bishop of Chicago) ordained him to the priesthood at the Church of the Ascension & St Agnes in Washington, DC on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in December 2007. He served as Curate at Ascension & St. Agnes from 2007 to 2009, and he, Renee and their three children - Ellie Grace (6), Patrick (4) and Flannery Agnes (1) - are eager to settle in on Beacon Hill and become active in the parish and neighborhood communities.

The Reverend Daphne B. Noyes, Deacon

The Reverend Daphne B. Noyes is a member of the first “class” of deacons to be ordained in the diocese of Massachusetts. She received the MA from Episcopal Divinity School in 1995, and completed the three-year diocesan training and formation program for deacons in 2001. She has been a chaplain at Massachusetts General Hospital since 1994, and for five years she was editor and publisher of the newsletter of the Assembly of Episcopal Healthcare Chaplains, where her work was recognized with Polly Bond Awards from Episcopal Communicators.

From 1984 to 2007, she was on staff at WGBH, Boston’s public television station and a leading producer of programming for national broadcast on PBS.

A member of the Society of St. John the Evangelist’s Fellowship of St. John, she occasionally serves as deacon at liturgies in the monastery chapel. She lives in Central Square, Cambridge.