Clergy

The Reverend Dr. Hugh E. Brown, III, Priest-in-Charge

Hugh E. Brown, III, came to All Saints’ Church as Priest-in-Charge in May 2007. He has been active in parish church and social justice ministries, having served parishes in Virginia, Ohio, and the Washington, D.C., area. In Washington, he served as associate rector at St. John’s Church, Lafayette Square, and as Development Director for Sojourners. He worked in Sojourners’ initial organization of Call to Renewal (since 2006 re-organized as Sojourners/Call to Renewal), a network of churches and other faith-based organizations working to promote anti-poverty efforts as a priority for national public policy.

Before coming to All Saints’, Dr. Brown was most recently rector of St. Thomas’s Parish, an eighteenth-century parish in Prince George’s County, Maryland, and before that was vicar and then the first rector of St. Philip’s Parish, Baden (Brandywine, Maryland), an historic African-American church.

Dr. Brown holds a B.A. in Government and International Relations from the College of William and Mary; an M.A. in Religious Ethics from the University of Virginia; an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary; and a D. Min. in Spirituality and Spiritual Direction from Wesley Theological Seminary.

He is married to the Reverend Dr. Elly Sparks Brown, also an Episcopal priest.

The Reverend Dr. Diogenes Allen, Priest Associate

Diogenes Allen retired after thirty-five years of teaching at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he was Stuart Professor of Philosophy. He is the author of fourteen books and is a specialist on the theology of Simone Weil. He was minister of a parish in New Hampshire, served as an interim four times, and continues to teach continuing education courses and to lead quiet days. He and his family have been part of the parish for more than ten years.

The Reverend Dr. John B. M. Frederick, Priest Associate

John Frederick served as a parish priest in parishes both in the Episcopal Church (in Connecticut) and in the Church of England (in London, Oxford, Birmingham, and Blechingley and as Rural Dean of Godstone in the Southwark diocese) in thirty-five years of ministry before retirement and a move to the Princeton area in 1995. Since then, he has been active as a supply priest in our diocese. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, an M.Div. from General Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Birmingham (U.K.). He is the author of books and articles on liturgy and the church and also on British military history.

The Reverend Dr. Karl F. Morrison, Priest Associate

Karl Morrison has served as curate at Christ Church, New Brunswick, priest-in-charge at St. Michael's Chapel (Rutgers University), intern in prison chaplaincy, and priest associate of All Saints' Sisters of the Poor in Oxford, England. He began teaching medieval history at Rutgers in 1988, and, at that time, he and his family joined the parish. As a teacher and scholar—he is Lessing Professor of History and Poetics at Rutgers—he is an historian whose research interests have centered on the history of ideas, spirituality, and the Middle Ages.

The Reverend Mary Ann Jensen, Deacon

Mary Ann Jensen is now in her third year as deacon at All Saints' Church, having previously served as deacon at Trinity Cathedral, Trenton, following her ordination in 2001.

She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Danish Lutheran parents. After graduating from college with a degree in speech and drama, she worked in professional theatre for a year before going to graduate school in theatre at the University of Wisconsin. In 1966, she came to New Jersey to take up an appointment as curator of the theatre collection at Princeton University Library, a position she held until her retirement.

Looking back, Mary Ann is certain that she was called to work in and for the Church first when she was about eight years old and imagined becoming a nun. By her mid teens, she was considering studying to become a deaconess in the Lutheran Church. Dissuaded from that by her father, she left the Lutheran Church to become an Episcopalian in 1960. In the mid 1980s, she again felt a call to work in the church but was so involved in her career and lay ministries that those thoughts remained dormant for another decade. In 1997, she was accepted into the Deacon Formation Program, a three-year course of study offered by our diocese.

At All Saints', Mary Ann assists in the liturgy and with pastoral care and visits, represents All Saints' on the Princeton Community Housing Board, trains Lay Eucharistic Ministers and Visitors, sits in on the Outreach Committee as a member of the clergy, and (as she says) tries to do most such good works as she is called upon to do. On the diocesan level, she serves on the Diocese of New Jersey Alcohol and Drug Dependency and Recovery Ministries Committee and is also Associate Archivist for the diocesan archives, housed in Trenton.