The Rev. Dr. Robert P. Clements

First Vicar of Trinity Lime Rock

The Rev. Dr. Robert P. Clements has served in a variety of roles in the Episcopal Church, from lay brother in a monastic order to port chaplain for merchant seamen. As a parish priest, he has served in over a dozen congregations in the northeastern United States, including five in Connecticut. In addition to his pastoral work, Fr. Clements has been a boarding school chaplain, ethics and philosophy instructor, and assistant headmaster.

Fr. Clements is a graduate of the General Theological Seminary in New York and holds a doctorate in practical theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. He serves as an adjunct professor of Christian Education at Hartford Seminary, and as a lecturer in adolescent spirituality for both the Toronto Theological Consortium and the Institute for Youth Ministry. His series of Trinity Lectures on teenage ministry are due to be published in book form in the near future.

If engaged in conversation, though, he is more likely to discuss the best board wax to use on Pacific waves, the dandiest fly ever to coax a trout in Vermont, and the subtleties in the music of the Mississippi Delta, in regards to his hobbies of surfing, fishing, and playing the bass guitar and blues harp. During Fr. Clements' years at Trinity, both those as interim and later those as Vicar, he lived in Litchfield with his wife, the Rev. Jenni Matheson, who is the rector of St. Michael's, Litchfield.

(Here's a photo taken just before our ecumenical Shrove Tuesday Evensong in 2007)

and, read a great article about Fr. Clements in the Litchfield County Times!  

Fr. Clements was called as Rector of Christ Church, Roxbury.  His last Sunday here at Trinity was August 23, 2009 (photos are on the 2009 photo album).  We wish him the very best.

Click here to see a page about the process that resulted in Fr. Clements joining us at Trinity.

CLICK HERE to go to the page about Clergy at Trinity Lime Rock.