Meet Our Clergy

The Rev'd Michael J. Godderz has been Rector of All Saints' since September 1998.

Fr. Godderz received his Bachelor of Arts in History with honors from Rutgers University in 1974 and a Masters of Divinity, magna cum laude, from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, South Hamilton, Massachusetts in 1977. In 1980 he received a Masters in History from the University of Chicago. His interests are in history, historical theology, liturgics and literature. He enjoys reading and woodworking.

Before coming to All Saints, Fr. Godderz was Rector of St. Bride's Episcopal Church, in Chesapeake, Virginia from 1991 through 1998. He was the Rector at St. Barnabas Church, Norwich, Vermont from 1986 to 1991. He served as Curate at Church of the Advent, in Boston from 1984 to 1986. Prior to ordination he worked at several publishing houses and as a lay Pastoral Assistant at the Church of the Good Shepherd, in Reading, Massachusetts.

Fr. Godderz is an active member of the Society of the Holy Cross (SSC). He has served on various Diocesan commissions and committees, including the Diocesan Council, the Liturgical Commission and the Architecture Commission (of which he was chair).

Fr. Godderz and wife Ruth share their lives with two shamelessly spoiled cats.

Contact Fr. Godderz at rector@allsaints.net.

The Rev’d F. Washington Jarvis has been Priest Associate at All Saints’ since 1976. He assists at Mass on Sundays and on major feasts. He recently remarked: “I am so grateful to have the privilege of helping out – in a very small way – at All Saints’. The parish is the spiritual center of my life; it is there that I receive the ‘food for life’s journey.’ Father Godderz has brought us to a Golden Age in our mutual life.”

Father Jarvis served as headmaster of The Roxbury Latin School for thirty years from 1974 to 2004. Since then he has taught a year at Eton College in England and has lectured and taught at schools and parishes in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand – mostly on the spiritual needs of adolescents. He served as president of both the Headmasters’ Association of the United States and of the Country Day School Headmasters’ Association, as Chairman of the Commission on Independent Schools for the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, and as a member of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.

Father Jarvis did his undergraduate degree at Harvard College, and he earned his master’s degree at the University of Cambridge in England. Bowdoin College awarded him an L.H.D. in 1999, and Middlebury College a Litt. D. in 2004. He served as curate at St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland from 1964 to 1971, and as Assistant Director, Upper School, at University School in that city from 1971 to 1974.

Father Jarvis is a member of the Society of Mary and is a frequent pilgrim to Marian shrines, especially to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in England. He has a lifelong interest in liturgical music.

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