Presiding Bishop's Fund Appoints Network Officer
Episcopal News Service. August 5, 1982 [82177]
Janet Reinecke, Diocese of Los Angeles
NEW YORK (DPS, Aug. 5) -- The Rev. Samuel Robert D'Amico of the Diocese of Los Angeles has been named as Network Officer for Education and Communications for the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief.
D'Amico will be responsible for continuing to develop a network of diocesan representatives and for maintaining communication to promote the Fund's work.
Each diocesan bishop has been asked to appoint a person, clergy or lay, who will promote the cause of the Fund in the parishes of his or her diocese. D'Amico hopes to bring these representatives together for regional meetings where they will be trained to inform clergy and lay persons in the dioceses about the Presiding Bishop's Fund.
D'Amico will also produce brochures, display materials, visual presentations, news releases and other information which will be supplied to dioceses and parishes and to national and diocesan publications of the Episcopal Church.
"I hope to develop a caring nucleus of people in each parish," D'Amico said, "and to involve as many lay people as possible in this mission of world relief. We want to unite the efforts of those concerned with human needs, in the Presiding Bishop's Fund and other institutions of the national Church and individual dioceses."
D'Amico graduated from Harvard University and the Episcopal Theological Seminary at Cambridge. He then returned to Harvard, where he received a Ph. D. in education. He was called as director of Christian education and as canon of St. John's Cathedral in the Diocese of Rhode Island. He accepted a call as rector of St. Athanasius Parish in Los Angeles, and later became the director of Christian education for that diocese. In 1953 he became rector of Holy Faith Parish, Inglewood, where the Rev. Samir J. Habiby, now director of the Presiding Bishop's Fund, became his associate. D'Amico was called in 1962 as rector of St. James Parish, Los Angeles.
D'Amico and his wife Virginia have three adult children. The new Network Officer will begin his duties at the Episcopal Church Center in the fall.