On Sunday, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 315 Warren St., will host the 20th anniversary of ordination to the priesthood of its rector, Rev. Susan Hagood Lee.
Rev. James Hornsby, rector emeritus, announced that the parish will also welcome Bishop Gayle Harris, suffragan bishop of Massachusetts. The public and friends of Dr. Lee are invited to attend. The service will start at 10 a.m., with a luncheon and reception to follow.
Lee has served the parish since 1988. She is an assistant professor of social sciences at Boston University.
She was ordained as a deacon in June 1988 and ordained priest in March 1989 in the Episcopal Church.
She is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Divinity School and Boston University.
Dr. Lee is the author of “Rice Plus: Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia,” based on her doctoral dissertation. She conducted research in Cambodia for several months, studying how Cambodian war widows survived after the loss of their husbands. There she was assisted by parishioners Samy Sok and Keang Ly, who traveled with Susan to Cambodia. She also learned Khmer, the official language of Cambodia.
In 1987 she wrote “Rhode Island Herstory,” which chronicles the work of deaconesses in Rhode Island before women were accepted either as full deacons or ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church.
Since coming to St. Luke’s, Lee has been primarily responsibility for organizing and leading St. Luke’s Church. She performs all of the functions of the normal parish priest and assists other members of the parish. She is the primary liturgical leader and preaches in both English and Khmer.
Rev. James Hornsby, rector emeritus, announced that the parish will also welcome Bishop Gayle Harris, suffragan bishop of Massachusetts. The public and friends of Dr. Lee are invited to attend. The service will start at 10 a.m., with a luncheon and reception to follow.
Lee has served the parish since 1988. She is an assistant professor of social sciences at Boston University.
She was ordained as a deacon in June 1988 and ordained priest in March 1989 in the Episcopal Church.
She is a graduate of Brown University, Harvard Divinity School and Boston University.
Dr. Lee is the author of “Rice Plus: Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia,” based on her doctoral dissertation. She conducted research in Cambodia for several months, studying how Cambodian war widows survived after the loss of their husbands. There she was assisted by parishioners Samy Sok and Keang Ly, who traveled with Susan to Cambodia. She also learned Khmer, the official language of Cambodia.
In 1987 she wrote “Rhode Island Herstory,” which chronicles the work of deaconesses in Rhode Island before women were accepted either as full deacons or ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church.
Since coming to St. Luke’s, Lee has been primarily responsibility for organizing and leading St. Luke’s Church. She performs all of the functions of the normal parish priest and assists other members of the parish. She is the primary liturgical leader and preaches in both English and Khmer.
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