The Reverend Patrick T. Gray, Associate Rector

The Reverend Patrick Gray was born in Wilmington, Delaware, and moved to Massachusetts to attend Gordon College in Wenham, finishing his degree there in 1992. He and his wife Naomi graduated from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, in 1997. Fr. Gray is currently working on a Th.D. in historical and philosophical theology at The General Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained to the diaconate in June 2001, and spent a year as Assisting Deacon at All Saints, West Newbury, Massachusetts. He started his work here at the Advent and was ordained to the priesthood in June 2002. Besides playing with his son Ezra, he loves used bookstores, dancing, and and feels that he is finally a New Englander now that the ups and downs of the Red Sox affect him emotionally.

Photo by Alister Lewis-Bowen

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.