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New clergy ordained in summer services

By Melodie Woerman

Editor, The Harvest

Three ordination services this summer added new clergy to the rolls of the Episcopal Diocese of Kansas.

Four deacons were ordained at a service at Grace Cathedral, Topeka on June 11, with Bishop Dean Wolfe as celebrant. Three of them have been assigned to serve their home parishes within the diocese. They are:

David Butler, Epiphany, Independence and Ascension, Neodesha

Robert Honse, St. Margaret’s, Lawrence

Allen Ohlstein, St. Paul’s, Leavenworth

All three are graduates of the Kansas School of Ministry.

In addition, a recent graduate of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary was ordained a transitional deacon at that same service. The Rev. Robert Harris currently is serving as a chaplain at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

The Rev. Maria Hoecker and her late husband Rick were ordained transitional deacons by Bishop Wolfe at a service June 29 in Sewanee, Tenn., where they had been recent graduates of the School of Theology at the University of the South there.

Maria has been called as assistant at St. Philip’s Church, Brevard, N.C. Rick died of cancer on July 28 (see related story at www.episcopal-ks.org/news/RickHoecker).

The Rev. William Wolff was ordained to the priesthood Aug. 6 at Grace Cathedral by Bishop Wolfe. Wolff has been a deacon at the cathedral for nearly five years and spent the past school year at Virginia Theological Seminary.

He has been named priest-in-charge at St. Peter’s, Pittsburg.