St. Stephen’s Interim Vicar is the Rev. David C. Parachini, who was born and raised in Philadelphia. He is the eldest son of two independent school teachers and the grandson of an Episcopal Priest.
Father Parachini completed his undergraduate studies in sociology and criminology at the University of Pennsylvania where he met Mary Anne Vickery, whom he married in 1965. He completed his theological studies at Huron University College of the University of Western Ontario in London and did additional graduate work at Andover-Newton Theological School and at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Following his ordination to the Priesthood in 1969, he became a member of the staff at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton, Massachusetts. In addition to his parish responsibilities, he was also employed in a variety of positions in health and human services serving on the staff of the Division of Drug Rehabilitation of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, Regional Director for the Massachusetts Office for Children and Director of the Inter-Agency Planning Project for the Secretaries of Human Services and Education.
Father Parachini has served parishes in Massachusetts, Minnesota and Connecticut. He served on Diocesan staffs in both Minnesota and Connecticut and was the Assistant Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Father Parachini has also held a variety of secular positions in health and human services administration in both Massachusetts and Minnesota. He has also had extensive administrative experience in the non-profit sector serving health, human services and education agencies in a variety of capacities.
For the last ten years, Father Parachini has been the Rector of Grace Episcopal Church in Windsor, Connecticut, a position from which he retired on May 1, 2011. Father Parachini and his wife live in Northford (a part of the town of North Branford). Mary Anne retired from teaching last year although she continues to serve as a special education consultant.
They have one child, a daughter, who lives with her husband outside of Boston. They just became grandparents for the first time when their daughter and son-in-law welcomed a son into their lives on June 6.
