Fr. Tony Clavier
GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS
I was born in Yorkshire, England at the beginning of world war II. My father was from the West Indies and an officer in the Royal Tank Corp who won the Military Cross at Dunkirk, my mother from Yorkshire was a District Nurse-Midwife. I’ve been in the US, on and off, since 1967. I am a student of church history with particular emphasis on Anglicanism in the late 16th to late 18th Century.
I’ve been in the ordained ministry for 44 years. For 25 years I served as a bishop in the American Episcopal Church (now the Anglican Province of America) and was present at the creation of two parishes from scratch, entirely financed by the local parishioners.
I was received into the Episcopal Church in 1999 and licensed to function as a priest. I’ve held parishes in Arkansas, South Dakota, France, where I was Dean of the Institute of Christian Studies, West Virginia and am now Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, La Porte in the Diocese of Northern Indiana in which I also serve as an area Dean and an Examining Chaplain and a member of the Diocesan Council. I also write sermons for “Sermons that Work”, a service of the Episcopal Church and for the Covenant-Communion web site.
My older son Mark is a priest of the Church of England, a Visiting Fellow of Cranmer Hall theological college, Durham and a doctoral candidate at Durham University. He is married to Diane and they have one son, Paul. My younger son Philip lives near Bethlehem, PA, is married to Erin and they have two daughtes, Caylin and Clare. My younger adopted daughter Megan is a graduate of Augustana College, Sioux Falls and has spent most of the past two years working with refugees and children in Thailand and Cambodia.
I am available to conduct retreats, parish missions or seminars.
