In July 2008, The Rev. Michael S. White became Christ Church, Savannah’s forty-first rector. He is married to The Rev. Helen S. White, and they have two sons, Ethan and Jay.

Previously, Father White served as the priest-in-charge for Christ Church, Georgetown in Washington, D.C.; as rector of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Durham, North Carolina; and as rector of St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church in Richmond Hill, Georgia.

Father White graduated from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1995 and was ordained to the sacred order of priests on January 5, 1996. In the Diocese of North Carolina, he served as the Diocesan Ecumenical Officer and, in the Diocese of Georgia, as a spiritual director for Happening, Cursillo, and summer camps at Honey Creek, the diocesan retreat center. Father White’s wife is also a graduate of the Virginia Theological Seminary and, while he served at Christ Church, Georgetown, she assisted at St. Mark’s, Capitol Hill. Currently, she serves as the associate rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Savannah.

Father White joins a long and distinguished list of rectors for our parish including Henry Herbert (1733), John Wesley (1736-37), George Whitefield (1738-40), The Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott (1852-59 and 1861-66), The Rt. Rev. John Waltrous Beckwith (1873-74), John Durham Wing (1918-22), David C. Wright (1924-44), F. Bland Tucker (1945-67) and George M. Maxwell (1973-91).

A native of Georgia, Father White is especially pleased to be returning home as rector of “The Mother Church of Georgia.”