Leadership

 Bishop Brown is the 10th Bishop of Maine. Bishop Brown was elected and consecrated in 2019 and came from the Diocese of Massachusetts at a parish in Winchester.  He is a native of the upper peninsula of Michigan. Email the bishop.

 The Rev. James W. Nutter was born in Minden, La., and grew up in various locations including Mexico, New Orleans, St. Louis, Baltimore and Maine, where he attended Bates College in Lewiston and graduated with a B.A. in English. Later he spent a year abroad where he discerned God’s call on his life as he studied at Manchester College in Oxford, England. He then attended the Nashotah House Seminary in Nashotah, Wisconsin, and graduated with a Master of Divinity. Fr. Nutter served for four years as an Assistant Priest at the Cathedral Church of St. Luke in Portland, Maine and was then called as the Rector of St. Peter’s, Rockland in 1987. In 1994 he was called to be the rector of Palmer Memorial Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, where he served until 2013. He retired for a month and then took a job at Harris County (Houston) in a variety of leadership roles. In 2021 he and his wife Lucy (Dr. Lucy Puryear) moved to Maine. In 2022 he was called to serve at St. John's Bangor, where he stayed for nearly 3 years. He started doing supply work at Easter 2026 and he immediately felt drawn to St. John's Thomaston. He is very grateful to serve this great community as their priest.  Email Fr. Nutter.