The Very Rev'd. Daniel Stephen Trout
Rector & Dean

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The Very Rev'd Daniel Trout is the fifth rector of St. Barnabas and the church's first dean as the pro-cathedral of the Diocese of the Eastern United States.

Father Daniel is a convert to Anglo-Catholicism from the Baptist Tradition and first entered the Continuing Anglican Church sixteen years ago. A native of the Philadelphia area and a graduate of Montgomery County Community College with degrees in Humanities and Art History (A.A., 2001), of Clearwater Christian College with degrees in History and Theology (B.A., 2003) and of Reformed Theological Seminary with a dual degree in Theology and Philosophy (M.A., 2007), he has been priested for fourteen years and served congregations in Florida and Georgia. Father Daniel is also a teacher, and has instructed in both Classical Christian Schools, as well as in the parochial and diocesan high schools of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orlando 2013-2017.

Apart from his ministry at St. Barnabas, Father Daniel enjoys a wide variety of hobbies including: cooking, reading medieval literature, exercising, hunting and fishing, watching sports and patroning the spectrum of fine art shows and exhibitions with his wife of 17 years, Anita.

Father Daniel is responsible for the pastoral care of the congregation of the cathedral, and he warmly encourages you to meet him as he conducts his parish duties, including the Sunday & weekday liturgies or the Thursday evening Anglican Scripture Study Series. He is usually at the parish office Tuesday – Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Rev. James Francis Sweeney

• Assisting Priest

• Director of Christian Education and Formation

Fr. James Sweeney is a priest of the Anglican Province of America and serves at St. Barnabas Anglican Cathedral in Dunwoody, Georgia, north of Atlanta. Fr. Sweeney currently works as Academic Dean at Cherokee Christian Schools, a classical Christian school in Woodstock. He previously served as Assistant Head of School and Dean of Students at Pacific Bay Christian School in Pacifica, California, a suburb of San Francisco.

As an educational administrator, he has particular expertise in HR management, curriculum development, and school accreditation. Fr. Sweeney has taught, and continues to teach, high school courses in literature, rhetoric, history, theology, and government.  Teaching and educational administration are Fr. Sweeney’s second career.  He practiced law in the public and private sectors for more than thirty years and served in appointed political office for several years. Fr. Sweeney founded a successful law firm that represented churches and religious organizations and schools in religious liberty, employment law, canon law, and nonprofit corporate matters.

Although retired from the practice of law, he remains an active member of the District of Columbia Bar and the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. Fr. Sweeney earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, his Master of Theological Studies in historical theology from Nashotah House (awarded cum laude), a Bachelor of Science degree in physics and Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of San Francisco (both awarded summa cum laude). He is presently completing his Doctor of Ministry degree at Nashotah House. Fr. Sweeney received a Certificate in Professional Wine Studies from the Rudd School of Professional Wine Studies at the Culinary Institute of America in 2007 and was certified as a Sommelier by the Court of Master Sommeliers in 2008. He has been a member of the Board of Visitors of Nashotah House Theological Seminary since 2015, and currently serves as Chancellor of Nashotah House.

Fr. Sweeney is a dual U.S. and Irish citizen and a fourth generation native Californian and San Franciscan and has been married for nearly 37 years to his wife, Betsy. He is an avid wine collector and enjoys Baroque music, opera, raising corgis, and traveling in the British Isles.