Clergy and Staff

The Right Reverend Chandler (Chad) Holder Jones, SSC.

The Most Reverend Chandler (Chad) Holder Jones, SSC

Bishop Chandler Holder Jones

The Most Reverend Chandler (Chad) Holder Jones, SSC

The Most Reverend Chandler Holder Jones SSC is Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese of the Eastern United States and Presiding Bishop of the Anglican Province of America

A native of Surry County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Emory and Henry College (BA) and Duke University Divinity School (MDiv), with graduate studies at Dominican House of Studies, Washington, DC, he has been priested for twenty-five years and has served congregations in Virginia, Maryland, Florida, and Georgia. He has also studied English literature at Exeter College, University of Oxford, England and Anglican history at the King’s School, Canterbury Cathedral. A convert to the Continuing Anglican Church movement, he has been a Continuing Anglo-Catholic for over thirty years. He was consecrated to the Episcopate as Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese in 2010 and was elected Bishop Coadjutor in 2019. He will become Bishop Ordinary of the Diocese in July 2021. He has been married for twenty-one years to Megan Baskwill Jones - together they have four children.

Father Daniel Trout

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

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 15 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.

The Very Rev'd Daniel Stephen Trout

Father Jonah Bruce

Father Jonah Bruce
Adjuct Clergy

The Rev. Jonah (Jerry) Bruce is a native of Louisiana and has lived in Georgia since 1990.  He received his B.A. from the University of Arkansas, his M.A. from Louisiana State University, and his J.D. from the University of Georgia.  In his secular work, he has been a felony prosecutor, a Special Assistant Attorney General representing the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services, and a Juvenile Court Judge.  In 2021, he was appointed by Governor Brian Kemp as the State Child Advocate, in which role he heads the ombudsman office for the state child welfare system.  He is an adjunct faculty member at Emory University School of Law, and spends most of his time teaching, writing, and advocating on issues affecting abused and neglected children.


While in law school, Fr. Bruce converted from evangelical protestantism and joined the Anglican Catholic Church when he was confirmed by the late Archbishop William O. Lewis.  His background and education led him to an active role in his local parish, and he was a founding member of St. Francis of Assisi ACC in Gainesville, Georgia.  He was licensed to preach in 2006, and for the next six years preached every other week.  During this time, he also led adult Bible study classes.  He was ordained to the diaconate in February of 2012 and to the priesthood in September of 2012, both by Archbishop Mark Haverland.  Then-Bishop (now Archbishop) Chad Jones preached at both ordination services, and participated in the ordinations.  


Fr. Bruce served as Priest-in-Charge at St. Francis’ from 2013-2022.  He is the editor of The Trinitarian and Deputy Chancellor of the ACC’s Diocese of the South.  He has assisted at St. Barnabas’ since 2023, having been licensed by Archbishop Jones. 

Dr. John Marsh

Dr. John Marsh

Dr. John Marsh
Organist & Choirmaster

John Marsh began his musical training studying piano with his aunt, Rosa Weikel. He earned the Bachelor of Music degree from Indiana University, and the Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees from Rice University. 

A Texas resident for 30 years, Dr. Marsh previously served for nineteen years as Organist & Choirmaster at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church, Houston, currently the largest Episcopal church in the U.S. During his tenure as chair of the Church Music Commission of the Diocese of Texas, a Children's Choir Camp and the LPM program (The Leadership Program for Musicians - a continuing education program targeting church musicians and worship leaders) were begun.  He led planning and music for The Right Rev. Claude E. Payne’s Enthronement as Bishop of Texas in 1993, and The Right Rev. Leopoldo Alard as Bishop Suffragan in 1995. Dr. Marsh is a member of the Bailey School of Music faculty at Kennesaw State University.

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