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The Reverend John Ander Runkle, R.A., appointed Cathedral Conservator in the spring of 2005, oversees the historic preservation of the Cathedral. He also manages all fine arts projects and works closely with the chair of the Chapter’s Fabric and Fine Arts Committee. A renowned architect as well as Episcopal priest, the Reverend Runkle joins the Cathedral’s senior staff following assignments as interim rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and consultant to the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. He worked as an architect for the Chapel Hill firm of Eason and Farlow Design, a firm specializing in church design and liturgical furnishings. Other architectural assignments include work as principal architect with the firm Frazier Associates in Staunton, Virginia, and work as an architect with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. In 1981 the Reverend Runkle graduated magna cum laude from Mary Baldwin College with a Bachelor of Arts degree, followed by a Bachelor of Architecture with honors from the University of Tennessee in 1984. He earned his Master of Divinity from the University of the South, School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee in 1999. He is author of “Reclaiming the Christian Contemplative Tradition” which appeared in the The North Carolina Disciple in 2004, and served as managing editor and contributor to Searching for Sacred Space: Essays on Architecture and Liturgical Design in the Episcopal Church, published in 2002. Among his many community services are positions as committee and board members of the Community Design Commission of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Architectural Steering Committee of All Saints’ Chapel at the University of the South, and membership on the Property Committee of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace and Museum in Staunton, Virginia. |
