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CDSP Names Coburn Director of Alumni, Church Relations

Episcopal News Service. July 7, 2005 [070705-2-A]

[Source: CDSP]

The Rev. Ann Coburn, among the first 100 women to be priested after the ordination of women to the priesthood was approved by the Episcopal Church, has been appointed director of alumni and church relations at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) in Berkeley, California.

Coburn, former interim rector of Grace Church, New Bedford, Massachusetts, and 1977 CDSP graduate, returns to seminary life after 28 years in parish ministry in Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. In a letter to alumni/ae she says: “It proves you can go home again.”

An active member of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church since 2000, Coburn said her appointment creates “a time of challenge and opportunity in the wider church.”

“The seminary can serve a vital role in bringing people together, as a center for dialogue as we deal with major issues together,” she said.

Coburn has served on various Episcopal Church and diocesan boards and committees, including the Joint Nominating Committee for Presiding Bishop, 1994-97; Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance, 1982-94; Ecclesiastical Trial Court (Diocese of Rhode Island), 2000-03; Eastside Interfaith Council, 1998-2003; Church of the Epiphany Mission Board, 2000-03; and Committee on Ministerial Vocations, 1981-98.

She has also lectured in pastoral theology at Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut, and has served as a deputy to general convention six times.

Coburn expressed pleasure at returning to “the first place that nurtured my call.” She said CDSP helped shape who she is, and she appreciates the opportunities in her new position to nurture relationships with alumni/ae, donors, students, faculty, and those in the wider church and community.

Church Divinity School of the Pacific’s mission is to provide the highest quality Christian theological education in an environment of scholarship, reflection and worship, rooted in the Anglican tradition.

For more information, visit the web site http://www.cdsp.edu/.