Epiphany Episcopal Church | Bishop's Committee

Bishop's Committee

The nine-member bishop's committee is Epiphany's governing body responsible for its "temporal affairs." They include the property, personnel, stewardship, program development and its oversight. The members are elected to three-year terms at the church's annual meeting in January. They in turn elect the clerk and treasurer, who may or may not be on the committee. Meetings are usually held on the third Wednesday of each month at 5:30p.m. and can be attended by any parishioner. Minutes of the latest meeting are posted on a bulletin board in the parish hall. Links to the last three meetings are below.

Steve Stephens

Vicar

Father Steve Stephens is Epiphany's vicar. He leads the Bishop's Committee. (See "Our Staff")

Bill Stone

Bishop's Warden

William “Bill” Stone is the Bishop's Warden at Epiphany. An important factor in his coming to Socorro in 1985 to join the math department of New Mexico Tech was Epiphany’s presence in the town. He is a lifelong Episcopalian whose late father Dean had a second career as an ordained Episcopal priest. One of his three siblings, Jennifer Allen, followed in their father’s footsteps also with a second career as an ordained priest. Bill himself is licensed to give the sermon and now too is in the process toward ordination. His sister Susan Stone is an Epiphany parishioner who regularly assists at the altar, reads one of the lessons or is the intercessor for the Prayers of the People.

Ben Bankson

Committee Member

Ben Bankson, an Iowa native and retired journalist in the church-press field who after a half-century in New York City resettled in rural Lemitar just north of Socorro.

Brewster Bird

Committee Member

Brewster Bird, who grew up in New England where his father Henry, once Epiphany’s vicar, served Episcopal parishes, came to Socorro after some years in California and is now on the New Mexico Tech staff as coordinator of circulation and the Office of Student Learning in the Skeen Library.

Eileen Comstock

Committee Member

Eileen Comstock, originally from Washington, D.C., is medical director of home health and hospice at Socorro General Hospital who additionally has a passion for music and the theater and presently also serves as president of the Socorro Rotary Club.

Annie Danielson

Committee Member & Clerk

Annie Danielsen, the committee’s clerk and Epiphany’s parish administrator (see “Our Staff”).

Carolyn Jokinen

Committee Member

Carolyn Jokinen, born and raised in Rocky Mount, N.C., has had a varied career including teaching, freelance writing and as a parish administrator and now is committed to serve fully wherever God leads her.

Jon Morrison

Committee Member

Jon Morrison, a Texan and retired chemist who in settling in Socorro became an artisan baker and the voluntary leader of a number of organizations, one being Epiphany where he was a former warden.

Jason Simmons

Committee Member & Treasurer

Jason Simmons, who comes from Little Rock, Ark., is a research associate at Tech’s Petroleum Recovery Research Center.

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