Our Rector

The Reverend

Adam S. Linton

The Reverend Adam S. Linton is a native of the San Francisco Bay area and was raised in the Episcopal Church.  A period of questioning and search lead him in time to Eastern Orthodoxy, in which he lived and served for some twenty years. He returned to the Episcopal Church in 1996.  His priestly orders were received in 1997, by the Right Reverend Frank Griswold, then Bishop of Chicago.

Father Adam was ordained in 1980 and previously served parishes in Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois, and Utah—and also as a Chaplain in the United States Navy. He has additionally served in diocesan administration, as a Standing Committee member, the Chair of a diocesan Liturgy Committee, and as a Deputy to General Convention (2006).

He is a graduate of College of Marin, Kentfield, California, and the Orthodox seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, with additional studies at Marywood College, Scranton. He is a graduate of and holds his Master of Divinity degree from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts.

Father Adam has engaged in intensive work on the Sixteenth Century English theologian Richard Hooker, of whom he is a noted student—as well as other formative theologians and writers from the Anglican tradition.  He enjoys both ecumenical and interfaith fellowship. Personal interests include life-long engagements with literature, poetry, music, and the arts. He has a special affection for the writings of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. Nature is a key source of his inspiration and restoration.

Father Adam and his wife, Lori, have been married for thirty-two years and reside in Orleans. They have five grown children.