The Rev. Allan C. Parker, Rector Emeritus

Father Allan Parker, ninth rector of Trinity Parish Church, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. In the middle of his senior year in high school his family moved to Seattle. He graduated from the University of Washington, where he met his wife Jean. Fr. Allan graduated from San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, California and was ordained in the Presbyterian Church. He served that church for five and a half years in Kansas and Washington.

After a year of intensive study under two diocesan tutors, Fr. Allan was ordained deacon and then priest in the Episcopal Church in 1963. He has served parishes in the Seattle, St. Louis, and Cleveland areas. He also served as Diocesan Hospital Chaplain, and was Assistant Administrator of Columbia Lutheran Home, a Lutheran Church-sponsored nursing home.

Fr. Allan's post-seminary education included a fellowship at the College of Preachers, where he read religious sociology and anthropology, and a two-year course in pastoral counseling at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. For many years he taught various courses at the Diocesan School of Theology, including Homiletics, Patristics and Old Testament.

In 1984, Fr. Allan was elected Ninth Rector of Trinity where he spent twelve of the happiest years of his ministry. After his retirement in 1996, he and his wife Jean attended Christ Church, Seattle; provided Sunday supply for a number of parishes and taught adult education courses. In 2001, at the invitation of Fr. Paul Collins, Fr. Allan returned to Trinity where he assists Fr. Paul and contributes a column to the Parish newsletter (The Chimes TK:LINK ) under the title, "From the Desk of the Kindly Olde Curmudgeon."