Parishioner at Episcopal church in Perry moves into priest’s role

By Jay Tokasz
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
May 02, 2010

With just a dozen regular Sunday worshippers, the people of Holy Apostles Episcopal Church in Perry were in no position to afford a full-time priest.

But they didn’t intend to shut down their 170-year-old rural parish, either.

So the congregation looked within its own pews and found a willing candidate for the priesthood.

And he comes cheap, too.

In a traditional ceremony this afternoon, Deacon Kirk V. Katner, a longtime parishioner of Holy Apostles, will be ordained to the Episcopal priesthood by Bishop J. Michael Garrison of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. the rest