Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California
Megan Traquair
The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern CaliforniaThe Right Reverend Megan M. Traquair was ordained and consecrated the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California on June 29, 2019 at the Mondavi Center in Davis, CA.
Bishop Megan is an active follower of Jesus Christ and was raised in Santa Barbara when it was a sleepy town, graduated from Pomona College in Claremont and received her MDiv at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, IL. Ordained in 1992 in the Diocese of Los Angeles she has led congregations in Tucson, towns near South Bend and Indianapolis, and Los Angeles. When she was Canon to the Ordinary in the Diocese of Arizona, she ran all aspects of clergy Transition (deployment).
Her interests include gardening, genealogy, hiking and history. Her husband Philip is a pediatrician at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. They have been partners and best friends as well as parents. They have two children: Hannah who teaches high school in Tucson, and Benjamin, who is an engineer in Colorado.
You may contact Bishop Megan at BishopMegan@norcalepiscopal.org.
The Rector of Church of the Epiphany is The Very Rev. Mack Olson. His spouse is Jeremy Karagan, and they have boxer dogs named Truman & Wilmer and a orange tabby cat named Dan.
Fr. Mack has a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Colorado, Boulder and a Master of Divinity from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. Prior to his call to ordained ministry, Fr. Mack worked for nearly 20 years in higher education, first at the University of Colorado, and most recently at Sonoma State University as the Director of Judicial Affairs. After joining St. John 's Episcopal Church in Petaluma in 2007, Fr. Mack started the discernment process for Holy Orders, and was ordained as a Deacon on September 10th, 2011, and to the Priesthood on March 24th, 2012.
Before coming to Epiphany, Fr. Mack worked as a hospital chaplain for two and half years at John Muir Health in Concord, California.
Our Deacon is the Rev. Cn. Cookie Clark. Ordained in 2004, she was Archdeacon for Diaconal Minnistries from 2009 until 2017. She is currently President fo the Diocesan Standing Committee. She was installed as Diocesan Chaplin for Daughters of the KIng in 2017.
Cookie's ministry is keeping the congregation up-to-date on what is needed in the community and helping people find how they can help. In that capacity she attends the Vacaville Homeless Roundtable and is an alternate on the Napa Solano Area on Aging Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Vacaville Library Commission and a panelist on Neighborhood Court, a mediation service of the Vacaville District Attorney and Poliice Department.
She assists in the recruiting of Upsala Colleege, NJ., and the Episcopal School for Deacons, Berkeley. She is a widow who lives with a Scottie and half, Sophie and Duffy, both Scottish Terrier Rescue dogs. She retired as an IRS Revenue Agent in 2001 and will answer and research tax questioins on demand.
