The Rev. David Bishop is a life-long Episcopalian who grew up in the Diocese of Olympia. As a teenager, David was very active in diocesan youth conferences, as well as Camp Huston where he worked as a counselor and where many of his closest friendships were formed. As a result of this formation and these friendships, David has visited and worshiped with many congregations throughout the Diocese.

As a young adult, David traveled extensively – witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall and including two years on tour with the international service and performing group Up With People.

David completed his undergraduate education at the University of Puget Sound, majoring in Communication (with a concentration in semiotics). His capstone project centered around how people communicate with the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in Washington D.C. He also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Design and Technology (Sound Design) from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

After working for several years as a sound designer for theatre and video games, David began his career as an educator. For the past 25 years, he’s worked in many different roles – at both the K-12 and postsecondary levels – as a teacher, advisor, coach, administrator, and 12th Grade Dean. During the COVID-19 pandemic, David served as the Director of Counseling and Wellness and led the Suicide Prevention Team at a PreK-12 school, supporting students and families grappling with the massive surge in suicidal ideation and self-harm. He is currently the Director of Learning Innovation at Tacoma Community College, where he and his team focus their work on instructional design and support that centers on equity and accessibility.

David’s favorite “thin place” is his family’s beach cabin on the Washington coast – where he loves to retreat, gather with family, read, write, cook, and play on the beach with their miniature Australian Shepherd named Hudson.

David felt a call to ordained ministry from a very young age and was ordained to the diaconate in 2022. He has been assigned to St. Luke’s, Tacoma since his ordination and will always be deeply connected to that congregation. He is married to Amy Eldridge Bishop, an intermediate school counselor of 34 years. They have been married for 30 years and have one adult son, Andrew, who is a college student, studying archaeology and anthropology.

David is looking forward to working with congregations across the Diocese to grow the diaconate and explore ways in which our deacons can be instigators of the Jesus Movement in a Post-Christendom world.

The Reverend Barbra Weza was raised in an evangelical church and discovered the Episcopal Church as an adult through a deacon friend while serving as a volunteer in a feeding program and families living at a homeless shelter.

She has served in Mason and surrounding counties for 17 years providing community and nonprofit organizational development, social services, and homeless advocacy: mobilizing churches and volunteers to provide feeding programs, cold weather shelter, showers, and resource connections in the parish hall of St. David of Wales in Shelton, her home parish.  It was during this time discernment and her call to the diaconate was confirmed.

She was ordained in 2018 and has served at St. Christopher’s Community Church on Steamboat Island and Chaplains on the Harbor in Grays Harbor County.

Barbra has served as the Executive Director and Deacon of Chaplains on the Harbor, serving Grays Harbor County since 2022, and was a board member prior to being assigned. The ministries utilize a peer model to serve those on the margins through street outreach, feeding programs, a day shelter, and a supported employment program. She serves on housing, mental health and recovery, and food initiatives boards.

She and her husband, Gary, a retired engineer in the timber industry, have been married for 45 years. They have three adult children, Jason, Erin, and Brian, and a bonus daughter, Ramona, married to Jason.

While raising her family, employment included early childhood education, family advocate for a school district, job development for people with disabilities, activity director for a senior center, hospice care, and homeless advocate.

She enjoys cooking, quilting, reading, gardening, hiking, nature, and solitude at the ocean to recharge and fill her introvert soul. “I look forward to serving as an archdeacon and building more relationships around the Diocese,” she said of the appointment.

The Rev. Canon Emily Griffin began as Canon Vicar of Saint Mark’s Cathedral on October 1, 2024.

Canon Griffin was ordained in 2003 and is a graduate of General Seminary (Anglican Studies, 2003), Rutgers University (MSW, 2002) and Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div., 2001). Prior to her arrival at Saint Mark’s Emily had been the Senior Associate Rector at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington, D.C. since 2015, and she previously served churches in Virginia and New Jersey.

Prior to seminary, Emily served a year in Jesuit Volunteer Corps in Missoula, MT, and has also worked with with Habitat for Humanity, Dorothy Day House, Episcopal Charities, and Hyacinth AIDS Foundation. She is currently President of the Board of the Godly Play Foundation.

“Canon Vicar” is a term new to Saint Mark’s, but it is fairly common in large, complex systems like the cathedral. In this role, Emily will join the Rev. Canon Rich Weyls and me on a collaborative clergy team serving as pastors, preachers, and teachers in service to the cathedral community. Emily will also use her considerable experience in support of day-to-day programmatic operations, striving for seamless integration of the cathedral’s mission and ministry, and she will work closely with the Dean and fellow Canons to develop strategies informing an array of programs and offerings that afford meaningful connections among those in the cathedral parish, in community groups connected to the cathedral, and in the broader region. As Vicar (from which the word “vicarious” is derived), Emily shall exercise parish community leadership in the Dean’s absence as well as representing the Dean and Saint Mark’s in the broader community when the Dean is otherwise engaged.

Fr. Stephen Garratt has lived in the Lake City area of Seattle area since the early 1960s after his family moved here from the Midwest. He is a graduate from the University of Washington. His ordination to the diaconate was in 1980. Then, his ordination as a priest was in 1981 while serving as the curate at St. Barnabas Parish on Bainbridge Island. Later, Fr. Garratt was the Assistant to the Rector at St. Stephen’s Parish in Seattle and part-time assistant at Christ Church in the University District and the Canterbury Chaplain to the University of Washington. In 1995, he became the rector of Christ Church and worked in that capacity his 2012 retirement. Since retirement, he served at Trinity Parish in downtown Seattle and Church of the Redeemer, Kenmore.

Fr. Garratt’s employment outside the church includes four years as a probation counselor for the Municipal Courts of Seattle. Then, after earning a degree in counseling from Seattle University in the 1980s.  he worked at Mental Health North, a community mental health center near Northgate, as an intern and later as a therapist on their out-patient team. He married his wife Margaret in 1987. They have three adult sons, Niles, Andrew, and Daniel. His interests include spending time with his family, traveling, reading, exercising, opera, and attending University of Washington home football games.

Fr. Weyls began as Cathedral Canon in February of 2024, and was named Canon for Community Life & Senior Associate Rector in June of 2024.

He is no stranger to Saint Mark’s, having  served as an assisting priest here 2013–2017. He was then called to serve as rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Seattle (Green Lake), where he served as Rector until 2022.

He also has a long tenure serving as hospital and palliative care chaplain, spiritual care director, and most recently as Interim Manager of Spiritual Care for five Providence Swedish hospitals in the Seattle region.

Prior to being received as a priest in The Episcopal Church, Fr. Weyls was a Roman Catholic priest, ordained in 1993. He married his husband Mark in a liturgy in Thomsen Chapel at Saint Mark’s in August of 2017. Rich and Mark are the proud parents of three adult sons, their spouses, and six grandchildren who bring great joy to their lives.

Edie and her husband, John, joined Saint Mark’s shortly after their move to Seattle in 1979 and raised their two children here. After a career in healthcare planning with Group Health Cooperative, Edie followed the call to priesthood and was ordained in 2003. She has served several parishes in this diocese, most recently as rector of Church of the Resurrection in Bellevue, and in the diocesan ministry of racial justice and reconciliation. As priest associate at Saint Mark’s, she also participates in the Seattle Service Corps, Creation Care, Sanctuary, and Noel House ministries. For rejuvenation, her favorite activities are horseback riding, cooking, traveling, and learning something new!

Rev. Weller was named an Honorary Canon of Saint Mark’s Cathedral on June 9, 2024.

Mark retired from St John’s in Snohomish several years ago and served a number of Episcopal churches in western Washington. Besides a commitment to parish life and liturgy at the heart of that,  he has worked ecumenically with many other faith groups, takes a lively interest in social concerns, and enjoys volunteering at the Center for Wooden Boats on south Lake Union. In retirement he and his wife enjoy films and the other arts.

Canon Steedman Sanborn was ordained to the Diaconate on January 27, 1992, and served a short time at St. Andrew, Tacoma, before being moved to Saint Mark’s Cathedral. She was ordained to the priesthood on November 22, 1996, and accepted a call to be Associate Rector at St. James, Kent, beginning Ash Wednesday, February 12, 1997. Marda became the Rector of St. James Kent in 2004, and served in that role for ten years. In 2014 Bishop Rickel appointed her as Canon to the Ordinary for the Diocese of Olympia (a role equivalent to a Bishop’s chief-of-staff), a position she held until 2020. She has also served as the Secretary to Diocesan Convention, and one of the Trainers for the College for Congregational Development. Since 2020 she has been Priest Associate at Saint Mark’s Cathedral.

Marda has been married to Doug for 25 years and they have a daughter Melissa who recently graduated from WSU with a degree in chemistry; Melissa is continuing her studies at Bellevue College. They have a Schnauzer and Cocker Spaniel which rounds out their family.

As a deacon, Earl represents the servant ministry of Christ in the liturgy, the parish and the community.  Besides reading the Gospel, setting the table and giving the dismissal at Sunday services, Earl serves on the pastoral care team, AIDS Care Team, and in the welcome ministry to newcomers.  In the community, Earl volunteers as a chaplain at Columbia Lutheran Home and as a cargo ship visitor with the Mission to Seafarers.  Earl and his wife Nancy are blessed with twins, Melany and Cyrus, and live with two cats in the university area of Seattle.  An avid cyclist, Earl has completed several tours, including two cross country, one coast to coast and another from North Dakota to Virginia.

Adam Bernard Conley was born and raised in the Seattle metro area. Adam’s discernment for ordination began shortly after college during a two-year internship in London with a Church of England parish that reimagined a new urban church plant in its historic worship space. After returning to Seattle, Adam gained valuable lessons in administration, communications, and pastoral care through his professional career in the retirement and assisted living industry.

From 2018 to 2022, Adam was on staff at Saint Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle, serving as Seattle Service Corps Director beginning in March of 2018, and later taking on additional roles supporting 20s/30s ministries and editing The Rubric magazine.

Adam left the staff of Saint Mark’s in June of 2022 to attend seminary at Sewanee University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. On May 9, 2025, Adam graduated from Sewanee’s School of Theology, having earned his Master of Divinity degree with honors. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 2025, and began his curacy at Saint Mark’s on July 15, 2025.