About Our Rector

 

The Reverend Father Kathy Corbett-Welch grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.  For the first 15 years of her life she lived in Roxbury, until her family moved to Dorchester.  Being brought up in the Roman Catholic tradition she attended St. Patrick’s School, Roxbury, under the tutelage of the Sisters of Charity of Halifax.

 

After graduating from St. Patrick’s High School in 1970, Fr. Kathy attended Mount Auburn Hospital School of Nursing.  For the next 3 years she was a member of the Daughters of Charity in the North East Province, working in the busy Emergency Room of St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, NY.  She always felt a call to serve Christ, but quickly understood that the call to religious life in the Roman Catholic Church was not where she was being called. For the next 22 years she had a successful career as a Newborn Intensive Care nurse, where she specialized in the care of premature babies under 2 lbs. [10 of those years at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston].

 

While developing her career as an NICU nurse, Fr. Kathy also searched for the Church where she could offer her gifts.  In 1985, she attended a service at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Boston, and immediately felt that this was her spiritual home.  Her call to service in Christ’s church began to become stronger and she entered the process for Ordination in the Diocese of Rhode Island.  She received her Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School and was ordained a Deacon in 1997 and a Priest in 1998.

 

For the first four years after ordination she worked as a chaplain, first in an AIDS Ministry, then at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and University of Maryland Medical Center, both in Baltimore, MD.  She was called to be the Rector of St. Luke’s Brighton in November of 2002.

 

Fr. Kathy lives in Baltimore with her spouse, Ellen, their 2 dogs and 4 cats.           

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