The Reverend Lauren T. McLeavey (Mother Lauren) has been the Rector of St. Stephen’s since October 2019. A native of Massachusetts, Mother Lauren was heavily involved in church youth activities. After high school, she attended Syracuse University and was the president of the Episcopal Campus Ministry there.
After graduating from college, she moved to Queens and joined Zion Episcopal Church in Douglaston, where she taught Sunday School, was on the Vestry, and became Senior Warden at age 25. She attended General Theological Seminary, graduating in 2013. She was ordained in that year, and also married Frank Warren IV. She served on Long Island for three years as Priest in Charge of Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Great River, and Curate at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Islip. In 2016, she and Frank moved back to Massachusetts, and she became the Rector of St. Anne’s in North Billerica, MA.
