Timothy Tuller has served as Canon for Music (Organist and
Choir Director) of St. John’s Cathedral since January, 2007. Prior to coming to
St. John’s, Tim held positions at Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham,
Alabama, and the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Tim is a graduate of the
Cleveland Institute of Music and Ithaca College.
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Tim Tuller
Canon for Music
904-632-9104, ext. 120
Judy Maurer
Cathedral Receptionist
(904) 356-5507
Judy Maurer is the "cathedral concierge" and first person you see upon entering the Cathedral House or talk to when calling the church. Besides answering the phone, she places orders for supplies and stationery. Judy distributes the mail and the weekly mailing to home-bound parishioners. Judy also serves as a host to guests who are visiting the church or meeting with the staff and assists them with future appointments or services.
Kathryn Bissette
Bookstore Manager
(904) 632-9104 ext. 152
Kathryn Bissette is a native of Tallahassee, and lived for 20 years in Atlanta during college, and when she worked in the securities industry as a bank stock analyst for several regional brokerage firms. She and her family moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 2005 and have been members of the Cathedral for 15 years. Kathryn and her husband, Mack, have two college-aged children, Ella and Nathan. Kathryn has been the bookstore manager of St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore & Gift Shop since 2012. Come and see us in our wonderful new location in the Brown House, which is located across the street from the Cathedral.
St. John’s Cathedral Bookstore & Gift Shop is a member of the Episcopal Booksellers Association (EBA), a national community of over 40 Episcopal church bookstores. Kathryn has served on the board of the Episcopal Booksellers Association (EBA) since 2015 and was recently named Executive Director. As EBA’s executive director, Kathryn’s responsibilities include growing relationships between stores and publishers; aiding brick and mortar stores in the skills needed to survive increasing online buying; and educating all Episcopal churches about EBA bookstores.
Kitty Cash
Executive Assistant to the Dean
(904) 632-9104 ext. 156
Kitty assists Dean Kate and Fr. Bob Dannals with all day-to-day administrative matters for the Cathedral.
Kitty grew up in Jacksonville and is proud to be a 4th generation Floridian.
Owene Courtney
Director of Formation and Spirituality
(904) 632-9104 ext. 151
Owene Courtney has been involved in Christian Formation and Spirituality for 40 years. She is an EfM graduate and has been an EfM mentor and taught youth confirmation for much of that time. As Director of Formation and Spirituality, she looks forward to guiding the people of St. John’s Cathedral in the process of formation and discernment of their gifts. As disciples of Christ, we are all called to love, pray, serve, worship, learn, give, work and join. To that end, formation and spirituality are about encouraging each other to practice those disciplines and holding each other accountable as we do.
Owene is married to Bill, a Cathedral member, and has three sons and daughters-in-law and five grandchildren and another one due in April.
Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare
Children, Youth and Families Minister and Liturgical Assistant
(904) 632-9104 ext. 118
Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare is the children, youth and family minister as well as the liturgical assistant. She loves her different positions and roles she has at the Cathedral. Liesl has grown up in the church and is honored to be able to serve and share God’s love to all children big and small.
Debbie Johnson
Director of Operations
(904) 632-9104 x153
Debbie provides leadership and oversight to all the physical, financial, human resource, insurance, and day-to-day management of the many activities and programs of the Cathedral. She coordinates and supports the various business functions of our mission and ministry, including being the primary staff executive with our Finance Committee, budgeting process, and the various Funds of our Cathedral. She also gives financial and other reports to the Vestry on a monthly basis.
Devanne Jones
Communications Coordinator
(904) 632-9104 ext. 150
Devanne is a cradle Episcopalian and Jacksonville native. She
holds a bachelors degree in English and Communications from the University of
North Florida. She currently produces the eEagle Newsletter, the Eaglet
bulletin insert, manages the social media platforms, and is the Realm and
Calendar Administrator.
Gloria Miller
Director of Program Development
(904) 632-9104 ext. 115
Gloria Miller plays an important part in nurturing new Cathedral programs so as to ensure that they thrive by engaging those within our Cathedral and in the greater community. She helps grow the existing programs for our cathedral as well. She and her husband Tim, are members of St. John's. Gloria is also an integral part of the Family Promise program.
Michalyn Palmer
Director of the Celebration Singers
(904) 704-8505
The St. John's Celebration Choir is a volunteer choir that sings every other week at the 9 a.m. service and at special events. They rehearse every Thursday at 5:30 in the Choir Room. Contact Michalyn for more information.
Nancy Purcell
Director of Marketing and Communications
(904) 632-9104 ext. 117
Nancy Purcell works in collaboration with ministry leaders to develop communications strategy for various programs and events. Any type of content creation, curation, re-purposing, proofing or polishing is within her realm of happiness, especially when it pertains to promoting the good work going on at the Cathedral. In addition, Nancy manages the website and the live stream presentation of our Sunday morning services.
Pam Searcy
Stewardship and Development Manager, Liturgical Assistant
(904) 632-9104 ext. 106
In her role as Stewardship and Development Manager, Pam oversees the annual pledge campaign and other fundraising activities throughout the year. She works with the Stewardship and Development Council to organize and implement initiatives for gift planning and managing the endowment fund.
As the liturgy assistant, Pam performs administrative and operational support functions for all worship services, online and socially distant, in-person.
Anice Brown
Sexton
Marie Tarver
Sexton
Marie Tarver has served St. John's for more than 25 years. She helps in many ways including providing service at weddings.
Debbie Scroggins
Sexton
Debbie does a lot outside around the Cathedral and at the Diocese. She keeps our campus looking great from the outside, in.
Malcolm Williams
Sexton
Malcolm takes enormous pride in all that he does to maintain our beautiful building. You'll be hard-pressed to ever find him without the warmest smile on his face.
Rita Diaz Decolmenares
Nursery Worker
Rita Diaz Decolmenares provides loving care to infants and toddlers in our nursery. She speaks fluent Spanish.
Bonnie Hardman
Accompanist
(904) 575-7486
We are so fortunate to have Bonnie, who is our resident accompanist at the cathedral. She also serves as a substitute pianist when the Canon for Music is away. Bonnie regularly accompanies our Celebration Choir and on occasion assists with the Children’s Chapel Singers.
Robert Roth
Assistant Conductor
(904) 868-1435
Robert rehearses the introit anthem at each Sunday morning rehearsal. He then directs the introit anthem from the baptismal font at the beginning of each 11 a.m. service. In the event the Canon for Music is absent, the assistant conductor conducts the offertory anthem and the communion motet in the choir stalls during Sunday morning services.
Rose Lindblad
Music Librarian
(904) 955-1485
The St. John’s Cathedral Music Library is comprised of over 1,000 works valued at over $125,000. We are so fortunate to have Rose Lindblad as the caretaker of this vast collection of music. As the Music Librarian Rose assists the Canon for Music by processing new music and by filing, distributing and managing an extensive library of sheet music and music books for the Cathedral Choir. This position also maintains the master list of music, keeping it current by adding new music to the list as needed.
Michael Miller
Music Archivist
(904) 923-0030
Michael Miller produces an audio recording of all services at the Cathedral and extracts the music to archive each recording to form an extensive library of organ, choir and instrumental music. He also uploads recently performed music on our Cathedral web site for the enjoyment of our congregation and the Friends of Music fans and Facebook followers.
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