The Rev. Fr. Jeffry Kennedy, Interim Priest-in-Charge
Fr. Jeffry Kennedy is excited to be involved with the St. Martin’s community at this important moment in its history. He is also enthusiastic to be a part of a progressive, inclusive and active parish family that St. Martin’s is known to be.
Currently serving as an Honorary Assistant Priest at St. Thomas’s, Huron Street, in 2015, Fr. Kennedy was appointed Interim Priest-in-Charge at the Parish of St. Olave’s, Swansea until a new rector was appointed. He has also served at St Clement’s Eglinton, the Parish of Perrytown, St Alban’s, St Matthias Bellwoods as well as Regional Dean of Parkdale.
Born and raised in the Diocese of Huron, Fr. Kennedy was ordained Priest in the Diocese of Toronto in 1986. He studied at Wilfred Laurier University in Waterloo with a focus in both psychology and music. At Huron College Seminary at the University of Western Ontario, he earned his Master of Divinity.
Fr. Kennedy has faith in the transforming and empowering nature of the parish community in all its diversity. He believes that an integral part of a priest’s role is to enable parish members to identify and develop their own ministries for the building up of the church.
Fr. Jeffry looks forward to sharing in this journey with the St. Martin’s parish family.
Edward Moroney, Organist and Director of Music
Edward Moroney pursues his eclectic career as a church musician, accompanist, composer and vocal coach in Toronto. A graduate of the University of Toronto in composition and vocal music education, he studied with Talivaldis Kenins, John Beckwith, Derek Holman, Oskar Morawetz, and Lloyd Bradshaw. While a chorister at St. Michael’s Cathedral, he studied organ with Victor Togni, and at the university with Dr. Charles Peaker and Douglas Bodle.
Mr. Moroney is a former organ scholar of St. Chad’s College, Durham University (UK), and is a fellow of several learned societies and British music colleges.
Throughout many years of accompanying, he has been associated with the Canadian Children’s Opera Chorus as founding accompanist, the COC, the Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir, the University of Toronto Women ’s Chorus, the Opera in Concert Chorus and the choirs of York University. Mr. Moroney accompanies the TMYC on two CDs (CBC label), the “Magic of Christmas”, conducted by John Rutter, and “A Christmas Carol”, conducted by Robert Cooper, and on the Christmas CD “In Midnight’s Stillness”, St. Michael’s Choir School, (2009). He has performed with many distinguished conductors, including Robert Cooper, Lloyd Bradshaw, Elmer Iseler, Martin Neary, John Rutter, and Robert Sund, in master classes, festivals, tours, operas, concerts and broadcasts.
At the University of Toronto, Mr. Moroney was the only studio accompanist employed by the legendary singer and voice teacher Irene Jessner (1901-1994). In 1973 he was awarded the first Leslie Bell Choral Conducting Scholarship (Ontario Arts Council). He is a recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2002), the Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012), and is a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (KHS), Holy See (2010). Mr. Moroney was the organist-choirmaster at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, Toronto from 1998 -2019, and has been the occasional organist of HM Chapel Royal of the Mohawks in Ontario since 2005. He also served as accompanist for the Orpheus Choir of Toronto (2003-2017).
Gillian Howard
Gillian Howard became the Office Administrator at St. Martin’s in 2014. A lifelong Anglican, she is also a professional musician and holds Masters degrees in Historical Performance and in Musicology. She sings with Schola Magdalena, teaches oboe, and plays modern and Baroque oboe with a variety of orchestras.
Our Wardens
Rector’s Warden: Michelle Loftus
People’s Warden: Brent Levy
Deputy Wardens: Eugene Farrugia and Erna Haller