Clergy

Fr. Eric Dudley
Rector
edudley@saint-peters.net
(850) 701-0664, ext. 13

Fr. Eric Dudley is a native of South Carolina, has been married to Belinda for twenty-five years, and together they have three children: Katharine, Christopher, and Margaret. Fr. Dudley received his B.A. from Wofford College in South Carolina, an M.Div. from Vanderbilt University, an S.T.M. from Yale University, and is in the process of a D.Min. from the University of the South. Having served parishes in upstate South Carolina for nine years, he came to Florida in 1995 as rector of St. John's Episcopal Church. In October of 2005 Fr. Dudley left the Episcopal Church to create St. Peter's Anglican Church. Fr. Dudley enjoys reading (especially Church history, biographies, and the novels of Trollope, Maugham, and P. D. James), gardening, biking, playing cards, and time with his family.

Fr. Hampson has almost 50 years of parish ministry. He served as Rector three times for 33 years. In 1975, he became a founding board member of Trinity School for Ministry near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, later serving as Chairman of the Board for eight years. He called the initial meeting to begin the South America Missionary Society (SAMS-USA), then served as Vice Chairman for 14 years. He is married to Sarah Oden Hampson. They have three married children, and nine grandchildren.

Fr. Michael Petty
Associate Rector, Adult Education
mpetty@saint-peters.net
(850) 701-0664, ext. 19

Adult classes and confirmation

Fr. Michael Petty is a native of West Virginia and grew up in Houston . He was educated at Austin College (B.A.) and Vanderbilt University (M.Div., M.A., Ph.D.) During his over twenty years of ordained ministry he has served a large suburban congregation, a campus ministry at a medical school and a hospital chaplaincy. He has served as Associate Rector for Adult Education since St. Peter’s was founded in 2005. In addition to pastoral ministry, Fr. Petty has served as an adjunct faculty member as the Perkins School of Theology (Southern Methodist University), Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the Center for Biblical Studies in Tallahassee . He is the author of A Faith That Loves the Earth: The Ecological Theology of Karl Rahner, published by the University Press of America. He is married to Sara Clausen and they have a son, Graham.

Fr. Andrew Rowell is a graduate of Duke University Divinity School and was a St. Peter’s 2006 Summer Duke Fellow. After completing his undergraduate program at Duke, where he majored in Political Science and Creative Writing, Fr. Andrew completed law school at The University of Virginia. He worked in Washington D.C. as a speechwriter for the Secretary of Health and Human Services during the Clinton administration and was employed as a tax attorney. While living in the Washington area, Fr. Andrew attended The Falls Church in Falls Church, Virginia, where he was involved in college and young adult ministries. In October 2007, Fr. Andrew was ordained to the diaconate at The Falls Church by the Rt. Reverend Martyn Minns, Missionary Bishop of the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), and on May 8, 2009, was ordained to the priesthood (Video) at St. Peter's Anglican Church in Tallahassee, Florida, by the Rt. Reverend John A. M. Guernsey, then-Bishop of the American Convocation of the Church of Uganda.

A native of Pensacola, Florida, Fr. John Wallace is a graduate of Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and was ordained into the priesthood by The Right Reverend Keith Ackerman, eighth bishop of the Diocese of Quincy. Fr. John brings a range of experience to his work with St. Peter’s, but most importantly, he has pastored young people from high school age to college and beyond. Fr. John is an accomplished guitarist and singer songwriter. His musical gifts and the six years he spent with the Christian music group “Dog Named David” make him uniquely qualified to lead Veritas, our Sunday evening contemporary worship service at St. Peter’s. Fr. John and his wife, Ashley, have four children: Gray (7), Meg (5), William (4), and Elisabeth (1). When he is not hanging out with college students, Fr. John enjoys reading, writing music, playing guitar and piano, making home-made salsa, and spending time with his family.