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Tim Tuller

Canon for Music

904-632-9104, ext. 120

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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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.

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.

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Paul Calewarts

Interim Facilities manager and Head Sexton

Paul brings a depth of knowledge and a breadth of experience to this role. He served as the Facilities Manager at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church for over a decade. He will be working half-time and will have four broad areas of focus:

  1. He will be the point of contact for vendors and contractors: scheduling work, overseeing repairs, and ensuring fair pricing.
  2. He will lead the sexton team, coordinating their efforts and ensuring our campus is continually welcoming to all parishioners and guests.
  3. Paul will maintain a preventative maintenance schedule and work with the Properties Committee to proactively address long-term facilities needs.
  4. As his skillset permits, Paul (the consummate “handyman”) will fix and make repairs.
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Megan Cochran

Executive Assistant to the Dean, Youth Minister

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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, daughters-in-law, and six grandchildren.

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Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare

Hospitality and Communications Specialist

(904) 632-9104 ext. 118

Liesl Gavronsky-Howsare oversees the hospitality ministry at the Cathedral and assists in Communications with social media, live streaming and service bulletins. 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.

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Michaela "Micha" Gibbons

Parish Engagement Coordinator

(904) 632-9104 x123

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Gloria Miller

Director of Program Development

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.

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Patricia Moore

Cathedral Bookkeeper

(904) 632-9104 ext. 107

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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.

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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.

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Pam Searcy

Director of Parish Engagement and Development

(904) 632-9104 ext. 106

In her role as Director of Parish Engagement and Development, 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. Pam also oversees programs for newcomers and parish engagement.

As the liturgy assistant, Pam performs administrative and operational support functions for all worship services, online and socially distant, in-person.

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Anice Jackson

Sexton

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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.

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Jennifer Meister

Assistant Conductor

(321) 331-6894

Jennifer rehearses the introit anthem at each Sunday morning rehearsal. She then directs the introit anthem from the baptismal font at the beginning of each 10 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.

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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.
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Sermons

  • Mar 27 | The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead Carroll
    Sunday Sermon: The Secret Ingredient
  • Mar 20 | The Rev. Mark Anderson
    Sunday Sermon: Equipping
  • Mar 13 | The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead Carroll
    Sunday Sermon: Compassion
  • Mar 6 | The Rev. Mark Anderson
    Sunday Sermon: Trust
  • Feb 27 | The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead Carroll
    Sunday Sermon: Vulnerable

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Service Times

Sundays
8 and 10 a.m.
Children's Formation during the 10 a.m. service.
Hakimian Nursery Open 8:45 to 11:15 a.m.
Cathedral Bookstore and Gift Shop Open 9 a.m. to Noon


Wednesdays
12:10 p.m.
Healing Eucharist in Cummings Chapel

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St. John's Cathedral Jacksonville
256 East Church Street
Jacksonville, FL 32202

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