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 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 23 October 2014 Office of Institutional Advancement Nashotah House Theological Seminary 262.646.6509 [email protected] Contact: Ms. Elin Wilde Nashotah House Names a New Dean & President
The Nashotah House Theological Seminary Board of Trustees is pleased to announce the appointment of the Reverend
Doctor Steven Peay as the 20th Dean and President of Nashotah House.
The Dean and President Search Committee reported to the Board of Trustees a unanimous recommendation for Father
Peay’s election as Dean and President during their regularly scheduled meeting on October 23rd. The Board of Trustees
enthusiastically approved Father Peay’s election.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the Right Reverend Daniel Martins, expresses his strong support for Father Peay’s
appointment:
I am completely delighted with the election of Father Peay to be our next Dean and President. He has already shown
himself to be an effective leader, pastor, and scholar while a member of the Nashotah House faculty. He is intimately
familiar with our operations and will be able to hit the ground running in a seamless transition from the ministry of
Bishop Edward Salmon.
Archbishop Robert Duncan, a member of the Dean and President Search Committee and Board of Trustees, reflects on
Father Peay’s election saying:
There is no question in my mind that Father Peay is uniquely qualified to lead Nashotah House at this critical time.
Now more than ever the House’s rootedness in the person and work of Jesus Christ is needed. Under Father Peay’s
leadership the House will continue to bless, I believe, the whole Church.
Father Peay’s undergraduate study of Church History led him toward monastic life, which he entered at Saint Vincent
Archabbey (Latrobe, PA) in 1977. Following his first profession of vows he studied for the priesthood and after final vows
was ordained deacon in 1981 and priest in 1982. The studies he began in college and pursued in seminary continued
following ordination. He returned to Saint Vincent to teach as Assistant Professor of Homiletics and Historical Theology.
During his tenure at the seminary he also served as Academic Dean for five years. Leaving monastic life in 1994, he
devoted himself to parish work for the next fifteen years in Congregational churches in Wisconsin, while continuing to
research, write, and teach in various venues. Father Peay came to Nashotah House as Adjunct Professor of Church History
in 2008 and was elected to the faculty in 2010. His orders were received in August 2010, and he is now a priest of the
Episcopal Diocese of Albany.
Father Peay was married to his wife Julie in 1996 and is the proud stepfather of Jeremy and Matthew.