All Saints’ Clergy

Geoffrey HoareThe Rev’d Geoffrey M. St.J. Hoare
Rector

Geoffrey Hoare has served as Rector of All Saints’ Atlanta since June 1998. A native of England, he came to America as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina in 1976. After taking an additional degree from Cambridge University, where he is a member of Magdalene College, he returned to the United States and to the Yale University Divinity School together with its Episcopal component, the Berkeley Divinity School. He was ordained Deacon and Priest in the Diocese of North Carolina where he served at Christ Church in Raleigh 1982-1987, also teaching theology in the Vocational Deacons Training Program before becoming Rector of St. Paul’s Church in Alexandria, Va., 1987-1998. During those years he also served as adjunct faculty at the Virginia Theological Seminary.

Geoffrey has served church and community in a number of capacities. In addition to multiple roles in various dioceses of the church his community involvement has included addressing issues of domestic violence, rape crisis and child abuse (Impact) in North Carolina; issues of homelessness (Carpenter’s Lodgings and Shelter) and AIDS (The Northern Virginia AIDS Ministry) in Virginia; and seeking to address issues of race, class and other “isms” on a national level (VISIONS-Inc). He serves on the Board of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and represents All Saints’ as a member of the Compass Rose Society of the Anglican Communion. He serves on the advisory board to the Anglican Observer to the United Nations He was selected to participate in the pastor-theologian program of the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton (2002-05), and he meets with some pastors from that program to this day. He currently serves as an instructor in the contextual education program of the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, and is a published contributor to a major new lectionary commentary for preachers called Feasting on the Word edited by Barbara Brown Taylor and David Bartlett. (Westminster John Knox)

He is an enthusiastic, rather than good, golfer, as well as being a reader, writer and chef. He lives with his wife, Sage, and their children, Alexander (b. 1991), Joanna (b. 1996), Ruthie (b. 2003), and Allyson (b.2004) in Atlanta.

Noelle York-SimmonsThe Rev’d Noelle York-Simmons
Associate Rector
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Noelle is the senior associate rector at All Saints’. She is responsible for congregational development and oversees adult Christian formation and parish communications, including print publications, the online magazine, Saints Alive, and the website. She also coordinates the All Saints’ Global Missions program in Western Tanzania and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and is the founding co-director of the All Saints’ Atlanta Project, ASAP.

Noelle is a graduate of Emory University and Yale Divinity School. She is a member of the Leadership Atlanta LEAD class of 2006. She has written for Feasting on the Word (Taylor and Bartlett, eds.) and her blog, Saintly Mama, is featured on the Episcopal Church website. Her 2011 sabbatical project, No Hands But Ours, was funded by a Lilly Endowment Rest and Renewal grant and was featured on the Duke Divinity School Faith and Leadership website and on the Episcopal News Service. She has a growing passion for the use of technology as a tool for connection and communication but firmly believes that nothing replaces a good, old fashioned face-to-face conversation. A native Atlantan, Noelle lives in Grant Park with her husband, son, daughter, and their dog.

Charles GirardeauThe Rev’d Charles M. Girardeau
Associate Rector
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Chuck Girardeau is the associate rector directly responsible for Children’s formation and family ministry at All Saints’. In addition to general duties as part of the All Saints’ clergy team, Chuck is responsible for all aspects of our ministry related to children, from their birth through the fifth grade.

These responsibilities include oversight of the nursery; the Children’s formation offerings for the three and four year-olds; Junior Children’s Church; curriculum preparation, teacher recruitment, and the logistics for the Children’s formation program called “Journey Into the Bible,” for kindergartners through fifth graders, and conducting the Children’s Liturgy of the Word during the 9 a.m. celebration of the Holy Eucharist each Sunday.

Chuck is an Atlanta native who lives in DeKalb County with his wife, four cats and one dog.

John HerringThe Rev’d John F. Herring
Associate Rector
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John is the associate rector for youth ministries. He oversees and coordinates all youth ministries, providing for the Christian formation of teenagers and their families. John provides leadership to and supervision of staff members and volunteers involved in youth ministries.

John lives in Decatur with his wife and three children.

Elizabeth Shows CaffeyThe Rev’d Elizabeth Shows Caffey
Associate Rector
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Elizabeth is the associate rector for worship, pastoral care, and Community Ministries. She also works with GALAS (Gays and Lesbians of All Saints’), and the Neighborhood Committee.

Elizabeth and her husband came to Atlanta from New York City. They live in Grant Park with their two daughters and their pack of animals – 2 dogs and 1 cat.

  • Clergy Associates

    • The Very Rev’d Harry Pritchett, Rector Emeritus
    • The Rev'd Robert T. M. Book
    • The Rev’d Dr. Bill Clarkson
    • The Rev'd Dr. Jim Donald
    • The Rev’d Karen P. Evans
    • The Rev’d William L. Evans
    • The Rev’d Spurgeon Hays
    • The Rev’d Grant LeRoux, Jr.
    • The Rev’d Charles Scott May
    • The Rev’d Dr. David M. Moss III
    • The Rev’d Gary Mull
    • The Rev’d Milton H. Murray
    • The Rev'd Burl Salmon
    • The Rev’d Walter E. Smith
    • The Rev’d Tom Stubbs
    • The Rev’d Paul Thim

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