The Reverend Michael J. Deegan
Rev Deegan grew up in Hyde Park and lived in Boston for more than 30 years. Through his career in banking operations, Michael lived in several other city, end up in Los Angeles. It was there that he took a big step leaving business in 2004 and began working for a Los Angeles Episcopal Church as Director of Outreach Ministries.
Ordination to the Diaconate in 2009 and then priested in 2010 lead to serving at Salisbury Cathedral in the UK for 3 years. While in England Michael served as Warden of the Pilsdon Community, an intentional Christian community operating a small farm and providing a place of safety for people in recovery from addiction, mental illness, and life crisis.
In 2021 Rev Michael returned to Boston and to work for the Diocese as an Interim priest, assisting churches with transitions and through change.
The Reverend Amy Whitcomb Slemmer, Esq.
Amy has a lifelong commitment to social justice. She is a bi-vocational priest, attorney and mother. She has worked on the front lines of the AIDS crisis, advocated for full voting rights for the residents of DC, championed health care as a human right, and led the consumer advocacy organization Health Care For All. She was introduced to St. Stephen’s Boston in the immediate aftermath of the shooting death of youth program leader Jorge Fuentes and has been a determined advocate and ally ever since. For the past three years she has offered strategic counsel and accompaniment for immigrants in ICE detention. She recently completed an interim rectorship at All Saints Parish Brookline and continues to work for the elimination of gun violence through the B-Peace for Jorge Campaign, robust and effective afterschool programming, improved immigration policies and the elimination of life sentences without parole. She is an active resident of the town of Hull, an enthusiastic boat commuter, and is delighted to spend time with her daughter Cynthia who lives on Cape Cod.