Meet the Team
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The Reverend Kathryn Nesbit Elledge, Vicar 
We welcome our new vicar, the Rev. Kathryn Nesbit Elledge.  Kate is a Chicago area native, with an M.Div. and an M.S.W. from the University of Chicago, and a Certificate of Advanced Theological Study from Seabury-Western Seminary. She has been a priest for more than 30 years, serving congregations and Episcopal schools in Hawaii, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and for the past ten + years in the diocese of Massachusetts, most recently at Christ Church in Cambridge.  She has a son who lives and works on the south shore, and her daughter attends Westfield State University.  Kate lives in Marblehead with her husband, the Rev. C. Clyde Elledge, and their dog, St. Francis of Assisi.    

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The Reverend Sarah Brock, Curate 
Sarah Brock (pronouns: she/her) is a native of Rochester, NY and was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts at St. John’s. Following the completion of her M.Div. at Bexley Hall Episcopal Seminary (now Bexley Seabury Seminary), Sarah moved to Boston to continue her formation as a monastic intern at the Society of St. John the Evangelist through the Episcopal Service Corps. She lived, worked, prayed, and ate with the brothers for an academic year experiencing the monastic rhythm of life together. Following this internship, she decided to make Boston her new home. For two years, Sarah served as a pastoral intern with common cathedral, a street church that worships outdoors every Sunday on Boston Common.

Prior to her ordination, Sarah was a high school chemistry teacher and holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry. She has a passion for sparking a fire in the people she encounters through radical welcome and, occasionally, a little help from science. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, choral singing, and reading a variety of genres.

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Francis Conover Fitch, Minister of Music 
Frances Conover Fitch has served primarily Episcopal congregations for nearly half a century - since her undergraduate days in New York State. As a church musician, she has led many avocational musical activities - adult and children’s choirs, handbell players, musical productions, fund-raisers - in Gloucester, Newburyport, Boston, Topsfield, and Swampscott, and has been Artistic Director of a concert series in most of these parishes. At St. John’s in Gloucester, MA, she facilitated the installation of a new pipe organ - C.B. Fisk Opus 97. She was on the faculty for the Presiding Bishop’s Leadership Program for Musicians Serving Small Parishes, and served on the Diocesan Music and Liturgy Committee at the time of the ordination of the first woman bishop in the Anglican Communion, the Right Reverend Barbara C. Harris.

Frances first studied organ and harpsichord while at Bard College; later she completed organ studies at the New England Conservatory of Music before going to Holland to further her harpsichord studies with Gustav Leonhardt. Fitch spent much of the late '70s and early '80s in Europe, where she taught at the Schola Cantorum Basilensis and co-founded the early music ensemble Concerto Castello. A recording by Concerto Castello earned Fitch an honorable mention at the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis competition held in Berlin in 1983. Returning to the United States, Frances began an active free-lance career, playing with early music groups such as the Boston Camerata and the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and participating in major music festivals, such as Aston Magna and Tanglewood. Although these days she is most often heard in concert as a soloist, Fitch is noted for her sensitivity and intuitive strengths as a continuo player, and outside of her many recordings with Boston Camerata for Erato and Nonesuch, she has recorded for Wildboar, Titanic, Koch, EMI Reflexe, and Centaur, in addition to making many radio recordings while in Europe. She has published several encyclopedia articles and a workbook for keyboard players.

As a teacher, Fitch instructed graduate students at her alma mater, the New England Conservatory of Music, for most of the 1990s. She served as chair of the Early Music Department at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA, where she taught, served on many committees and performed for nearly three decades. In addition to several workshops, she now teaches at Tufts and Brandeis Universities, and New England Conservatory, and has a private studio. In 2012, she had the honor to spend a semester as Guest Professor at Ferris University in Yokohama, Japan - originally a seminary founded by an American missionary. Frances is also a Licensed teacher of the course What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body.

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Peter Bouras, Sexton
Our Sexton, Peter, is from Salem, and has two sons, Demetri and Damian. Peter is a graduate of Lynn Vocational Technical Institute. He was in the food business for twenty years and for a number of years owned his own pizzeria. Before coming to St. John's, Peter worked for Homeland Security as a Transportation Security Officer at Logan Airport. Peter’s main hobbies are sports and spending time with his family. You can email Peter at peter@sjcb.org

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 Dorothy (Dottie) Foley, Parish Administrator
 Dottie grew up on the North Shore and is delighted to be part of the St. John's family.  She has a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and received her J.D. from Columbia Law School.  Dottie practiced copyright, media and Constitutional law at a multinational law firm and served as Special Counsel at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and London.  She taught law for several years and when she is not at St. John's she works on international human rights law projects and is collaborating on a documentary.  In her spare time, she writes, sings and sails.  Dottie was received into the Episcopal Church in 1995 by Bishop Ronald H. Haines at St. John's Episcopal Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.  Her email is dorothy@sjcb.org

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