The Reverend Jenifer Chatfield is the 8th rector of St. Edmund’s. She has served parishes in the Los Angeles area and in New Haven, Connecticut including as the Priest-in-Charge at St. Wilfrid of York Church and Pre-school in Huntington Beach and as Interim Rector and the Associate for Liturgy and Formation at St. James’ in the City in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles.
She has extensive creative, academic and administrative experience; before being called to ordained ministry, she had a varied career in the Theatre and Film businesses in both L.A. and New York. Along with a B.A. in drama from UC Irvine and an M.F.A. from the School of Film and Television at UCLA, she has a Master of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School, received her Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and is a graduate of the Yale Institute of Sacred Music where she focused on Liturgical Studies and the intersection between art, music and religion. She is currently finishing her work in the Doctoral Program at Virginia Theological Seminary.
