Our Staff
Bishop Michael Hunn of the Diocese of the Rio Grande has authority over the diocese's mission churches of which Epiphany is one and thus serves as our rector. He appoints the vicar as his representative here.
Bishop Hunn grew up in New Mexico and Texas and got his higher education first at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., earning a bachelor of arts degree in history and religion there; next at the University of Cambridge in England, earning a master's degree in theology; and then at the former Episcopal Seminary, Seabury-Western in Evanston, Ill., from which he received a certificate of advanced theological study.
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Following his ordination as an Episcopal priest in 1996, his first job was as chaplain, head basketball coach and chair of the theology department at a boarding school in Kent, Conn., having Episcopal roots, the Kent School. He went on to serve as senior associate rector of Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, Ill.; Episcopal chaplain at Davidson College in Davidson, N.C., and associate rector of St. Alban's Episcopal Church in the city; canon to Bishop Michael Curry of the Diocese of North Carolina based in Raleigh; and in 2015 when Bishop Curry was elected the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, leader of his transition team and what was termed "a staff-wide restructure and culture transformation process." He was consecrated as our diocese's 11th bishop in November of 2018.
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His wife, Meg Buerkel Hunn, is also an Episcopal priest who in Raleigh was assistant rector of Christ Church. They have three children, Dexter, Murphy and Dosie.
The position of Vicar is vacant.
Annie Danielsen handles the job of parish administrator plus serves the church in a number of other capacities. They include being on the bishop's committee and its clerk as well as on the altar guild that readies the altar for the Sunday services. She is on the Pastoral Care Team tasked with reaching out to each family in the parish to check on their well-being and needs. She assists with the production of the digital newsletter Epiphany E-Notes. For one of the groups that meets at Epiphany, the Fiber Arts Guild, she is on its board and the secretary. In the town of Magdalena, where she and her husband Michael live, she helps with him at the Samaritan Center Thrift Store and Food Pantry.
Annie is a native of Burbank, Calif., who as a young adult relocated with her father to Phoenix. For many years she worked in the business office of the Mountain Bell telephone company. After retiring, she was the part-time office manager of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Chandler, Ariz., to which she and Michael belonged. After he retired, they bought 30 acres in Magdalena on which they put two manufactured homes. One was for her late mother. Michael's preference for liturgical services brought them to Epiphany and a full and meaningful affiliation.
