St. Paul's Episcopal Church on-the-Hill

  Over 150 Years of Worship, Service, and Formation in Christ's Name

Getting to Know Us: Ministries, Mission, & Governance

If you are visiting St. Paul's for a day, or looking for a spiritual home for years to come, we're glad you're here. We regularly welcome visitors and friends from around the world.  We hope this brief overview is helpful as a welcoming guide to our life as an Episcopal Church.

Saint Paul's on-the-Hill is a mission congregation of the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota. Our ministry is governed by the Constitution and Canons of the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Diocese of Minneasota. We worship with The Book of Common Prayer. 

We are a community that embraces the ministry of all the baptized. The Rt. Rev. James Jelinek, Bishop of Minnesota, is the Rector. The Rev. Mark Thompson, Vicar, oversees the day-to-day ministry of the congregation and chairs the Bishop's Committee. Senior Warden Mark Heckel and Junior Warden Mary Lou Oliverius assist in the task of leadership. We share our ministry and building with our sister congregation of La Misión El Santo Niño Jesús, and together we are a diverse multicultural community of faith seeking to live faithfully into the realities and challenges of the future God sets before us.

For further information on the ministry of La Misión El Santo Niño Jesús please contact the Rev. Susan Moss, Vicar of La Misión El Santo Niño Jesús (651-485-5369 or semmoss@aol.com ).

Clergy of St. Paul's on-the-Hill

We are blessed at St. Paul's to have the gifts of several clergy whose ministry is widely different in focus. Each of the clergy have a blog on which they occasionally post items. The Vicar exercises oversight of St. Paul's on a day-to-day basis in concert with the Wardens and Bishop's Committee. Our Priests-in-Residence each works throughout the diocese according to his or her skills and assist the Vicar from time to time as their other ministries allow. The most sharply focused of these ministries at this time is the Young Adult and College ministry.  

• The Rev. Mark A. Thompson, Vicar (651-698-0371 ext. 1 markthompson@stpaulsonthehillmn.org)
• The Rev. Diana Rogers, Priest-in-Residence for Young Adult & College Ministry (651-698-0371 ext. 2 dianarogers@stpaulsonthehillmn.org)
• The Rev. Penelope Warren, PhD, Priest-in Residence
• The Rev. Neil Elliott, PhD, Scholar-in-Residence

Neil Elliott has been a priest since 2002, formerly serving as chaplain at the University Episcopal Center and since 2005 as scholar in residence at St. Paul's and Acquiring Editor in biblical studies at Fortress Press. He is a New Testament scholar, teaching as adjunct faculty at Metropolitan State University and United Theological Seminary, and is the author of several books including Liberating Paul (1994) and The Arrogance of Nations: Reading Romans in the Shadow of Empire (2008). He and Mary Ellen have two sons, Austin and Jeremy.