The Rev. Janine Schenone, Rector

Pastor Janine Schenone grew up in a large Italian Catholic family in the San Francisco Bay Area. After earning Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English and creative writing, she worked in the software industry for 15 years before moving to Sacramento to teach English at American River College. She walked into an Episcopal church one year later and re-experienced a call to the priesthood that she had first experienced as a child in Catholic churches.

She earned an M.Div at Yale Divinity School and began a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology at Fordham University before realizing her true calling is parish ministry. She has previously served as the Theologian in Residence at Christ Church in Bronxville, NY; the Senior Associate for Congregational Development at All Saints Church, Pasadena; and the Rector of Good Samaritan Episcopal Church in San Diego, CA.

She loves hiking and cycling, piano playing, reading, films, and rooting for Bay Area teams (while being pastorally supportive of Colorado teams).