A well-travelled priest has come home to two North Yorkshire parishes after sixteen years in a Florida church close to the USA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The Revd Peter Roberts will be instituted as Rector of Monk Fryston and South Milford on the 1st October by the Bishop of Selby, the Right Reverend John Thomson, in a service beginning at 7.30pm in St Mary’s Church, South Milford. He succeeds the Reverend John Hetherington who retired in 2017.
Peter is married to Ann, who plans to return to her work as a speech and language therapist.
From 2003 to 2019 Mr Roberts was Rector of St Luke’s, Merritt Island, Florida, which is the closest Episcopalian (Anglican) church to the Kennedy Space Center; many of his congregation worked at the Center and about twenty times a year he could watch launches from his garden at about five miles’ distance.