Pastor Teresa

The Rev. Teresa K. M. Danieley was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. She is a graduate of Crossroads School (high school), Yale College (B.A., History), the University of Chicago (M.P.P.), and the General Theological Seminary (M.Div.) She has worked for Dwight Hall: the Center for Public Service and Social Justice at Yale, Interfaith Worker Justice, the Office of Institutional Advancement and Alumni/ae Relations at General Theological Seminary, and St. James' Church.

Pastor Teresa is a life-long Episcopalian, from a family of Baptist missionaries. During the past twenty years, she has served the Episcopal Church on the diocesan, provincial, national levels. She currently serves as a member of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri's Diocesan Council and Commission on Ministry, a Trustee on the Episcopal Presbyterian Charitable Medical Trust, and the priest in charge of Episcopal Campus Ministry at St. Louis University. In civic life, Pastor Teresa is the Faith Committee Co-Chair for St. Louis Area Jobs with Justice, a board member of Faith ALoud, and a board member of the Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender Community Center of Metropolitan St. Louis. Pastor Teresa is an Associate of the Order of St. Helena.

Pastor Teresa was very pleased to return to St. Louis in June 2004 in order to accept the call to be the 21st rector of St. John's. She has served as pastor of St. John's for more than four wonderful years so far and she looks forward to many more years of fruitful ministry at St. John's. To this end, Pastor Teresa began work on a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in Congregational Development at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in July 2007.

Pastor Teresa and her husband, Jonathan, live with three cats in Tower Grove Heights. They are expecting their first child in early January 2011. The Danieleys are also about to start renovating a house on Wyoming Street. They also enjoy walking, biking, gardening, cooking, reading historical fiction and non-fiction, playing games and travelling.

Pastor Teresa and Co.

Family:

The Rev. & Mr. Teresa & Jonathan Danieley and Pastor Teresa's mother, Phyllis, at their wedding on September 26, 2009

Miranda:

ChurchCats:

Frankie and Johnnie

born September, 2004