The Reverend Greg Johnston
Rector
rector@stjohns02129.org

Greg came to St. John’s in September 2020, after serving as Assistant Rector of St. Anne’s in-the-Fields in Lincoln, MA. He received his BA from Harvard University and was trained for ordination at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, where he received an MDiv from Yale Divinity School and Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley.

Greg lives in Charlestown with his wife Alice and their four-year-old Murray. In his free time, he cooks, runs, studies ancient languages, and develops church-related web applications like Venite, a Daily Office prayer and liturgy-planning app.

Douglas N. Witte
Director of Music
Douglas received his undergraduate training in organ and choral music at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge Massachusetts, graduate level training in organ performance at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, and pursued independent studies under the auspices of the North German Organ Academy, based in Uttum, Ost-Friesland. He has been St John’s Music Director since 1993. His musical interests are eclectic, running the gamut from Hindustani sacred music to 1930s Berlin cabaret, but his primary loves are the organ music of Sweelinck and the 17th century North German school, and the Anglican choral tradition, from Tallis to Stanford.

Priscilla Burns
Parish Administrator
Priscilla is a cradle Episcopalian and 35 year active member of Parish of the Epiphany, Winchester. Born in Tennessee and raised in Florida, she has called the Boston area home for many years and loves serving both Old North and St. John’s Episcopal Church, Charlestown as shared Administrator. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Lynchburg, Virginia and earned an MBA from Northeastern University.

Nancy Savage
Godly Play Teacher

Brian O’Neill
Sexton