Our Preachers

The Rev. D. Littlepage was called in 2020 to be the thirteenth Rector of Trinity Church. She previously served as the Director of Roxbury-Dorchester Power in Community, a collective founded by three Episcopal Parishes and the Diocese of Massachusetts.  When asked to give a four-word summary of what God is calling her to do she said, “magnify holiness on margins.”  She resides in West Hartford with her wife Kristen and their dog Caleb. 

The Rev. George Chien recently retired from the senior pastorate at Metropolitan Community Church of Hartford, where he served for twelve years. He previously served as pastor of United Methodist congregations in upstate New York and Connecticut. George serves as as the Digital Missioner here at Trinity.  A graduate of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, he resides in Hartford with his husband Julio Flores and their two boys, Michael and Ismael. 

The Rev. Dr. Frank Kirkpatrick is a priest associate here at Trinity. He's is a recently retired professor of religion at Trinity College, where his fields of interest include the history of religion in America, religious and philosophical ethics, especially Christian social ethics, the philosophy of religion, atheism, and the history of Christian religious thought in the west. Frank has written several books, and he's a regular contributor to the Huffington Post religion blog. You can see his most recent articles here.  

 

The Rt. Rev. Andrew (Drew) Smith is the retired Diocesan Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Since his retirement he has worshiped at Trinity along with his wife, Kate, who is a life-long member of the parish.

Ms. Kate Byroade  is the Director of the Cragin Memorial Library in Colchester. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Religion from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, a master’s degree in Library Science at Simmons University, and has taken graduate courses at Hartford Seminary. A member of Trinity since her family joined in the early 80s, she is active as a Lay Eucharistic Minister and leads a monthly service of Morning Prayer at Caleb Hitchcock at Duncaster in Bloomfield, is a Church school teacher for grades 3-5, and Lector. She is Trinity’s Loaves & Fishes “shopper” and loves to be a guest reader at Trinity Academy. Married to Trinity’s treasurer Casey Rousseau for many years, they are the parents of Elizabeth and Margaret.