Bishop Alan M. Gates has announced that he has appointed the Rev. Sam Rodman to serve as acting chief of staff, effective July 1.
Rodman has most recently served as project manager for campaign initiatives, coordinating the implementation of mission hubs and numerous other projects throughout the diocese. Since January he has also supported parish life through work with the congregational development staff.
As acting chief of staff, he will carry out staff supervision; coordinate plans for Diocesan Convention
The Rev. Sam Rodman
and clergy days; assist Diocesan Council, Standing Committee and other leadership groups; and support a host of programmatic events and diocesan ministries.
As previously announced, the Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, will step down in mid-September. As acting chief of staff, Rodman will temporarily assume most duties of the canon to the ordinary, retaining those duties until a new canon to the ordinary is named. He will not continue in the permanent position.
In appointing Rodman to this post, Gates said, “Sam Rodman has the trust and deep respect of the diocesan staff and those throughout the diocese with whom he has worked for many years. I am so grateful that we will be served by his organizational acumen, pastoral heart, devotion to the Diocese of Massachusetts and long-standing relationships, near and far.”