SAINT PATRICK's Episcopal Church

Bishop of Atlanta in 1966                                 The Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne

Mission of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

First organizational meeting                               Held at St. Martin-in-the-Fields

                                                                        December 6, 1966

First service                                                      Held at Hightower School, Doraville

                                                                        Celebrant:  the Ven. John Lee Womack

                                                                        January 8, 1967

New home                                                       Peachtree High School, Dunwoody

                                                                        (now Peachtree Charter Middle School)

                                                                        September 8, 1968

Groundbreaking for present Parish Hall             January 31, 1971

First service in present Parish Hall                     October 31, 1971

Gray Temple's first service                                January 1, 1975

Parish status granted                                         At Diocesan Council

                                                                        January 23-24, 1975 (Council held in

                                                                        January then, not in November as now)

Dedication of Old Chapel and

Classrooms and Tenth Anniversary                    March 20, 1977

                                                                        Celebrant:  the Rt. Rev. Bennett Jones Sims

Consecration of Present Church                        December 18, 1984    

                                                                        Celebrants:  the Rt. Rev. Bennett Jones Sims

                                                                        the Rt. Rev. Charles Judson Child, Jr.

 February 8, 1976                                              For Classroom buildings and Chapel

                                                                         (Present Library)

 1981                                                                Faith Venture (for Present Church)

 1986                                                                Freedom to Serve (for Parish Hall and

                                                                         Classroom completion and present Chapel

 1997                                                                Freedom to Serve '97 (to retire debt)

 2008                                                                Imagine the Impact

April 1967 - March 1968                                 the Rev. Imri Blackburn (Priest-in-Charge)

March 1968 - July 1969                                   the Rev. Douglas C. Turley, Jr. (Priest-in-Charge)

July 1969 - November 1970                             the Rev. Douglas C. Turley, Jr. (Vicar)

April 1971 - July 1974                                     the Rev. P. Roberts Bailey (Vicar)

January 1975 -  January 2006                          the Rev. Gray Temple, Jr. (Rector)

September 2007 - May 2009                           the Rev. David Stringer (Rector)

August 2008 - January 2010                            the Rev. Penny A. Nash (Assoc. Rector)

July 2009 - January 2010                                 the Rev. Wells Newell Graham (Interim Rector)

May 2010 - Present                                         the Rev. P. Richard Game (Rector)

January 8, 1967 - September 8, 1968               Hightower School, Doraville, Georgia

September 15, 1968 - October 24, 1971          Peachtree High School, now Peachtree

                                                                         Charter Middle School, Dunwoody, Georgia

October 31, 1971 - December 16, 1984           Present Parish Hall

December 23, 1984 - Present                           Present Church