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Rev. Canon Patricia Powers

Priest In Residence

The Rev Canon Patricia Powers retired in 2012 from St. Nathaniel’s Church in North Port, Fl. where she served as Rector for 12 years.

Before coming to Florida, she was a missionary to Brazil for 23 years. She began her ministry in Brazil as a Volunteer in Mission and then as an appointed missionary from the US National Episcopal Church and the Order of the Daughters of the King. In 1986 after completing Seminary in Brazil and the United States, she was ordained. 

Ministries while in Brazil were in three areas. The first area, education, administrator of an elementary school, professor of theology, Dean of the Southwest Seminary in Porto Alegre. The second, Expansion of the Church, Director of the National Department of Mission, creation of the Missionary

Diocese of Brasilia, and the Missionary District of the Northwest of Brazil. The third, Pastoral, Rector of several parishes and start-up missions, Dean of the Cathedral of the Resurrection, Brasilia, work with women, street children and the poor. She continues to work with the Bishop of Brasilia as the Missionary Canon for International Relations.