Rev. Hilary Greer has been serving St. Andrew’s since 2018. She previously served as Priest-in-Charge and University Chaplain at St. Mark’s Episcopal Chapel at the University of Connecticut. Hilary is a 1996 graduate of Oberlin College and after 15 years of leading national non-profits, completed her Master of Divinity degree at the Episcopal Divinity School. Prior to seminary, her work focused on philanthropic and organizational development initiatives designed to strengthen grassroots cooperatives and community development corporations across the U.S. and Canada. Transitioning into ministry as an interfaith hospital chaplain, Hilary specialized in trauma, which later led her to Rwanda to study processes of justice and reconciliation among genocide offenders and survivors.

Hilary has lived across the United States, as well as studying in Mexico (economic development), Rwanda (genocide and reconciliation), and India (liberation movements and Dalit theology). She currently serves as the board chair of the Society for the Increase of Ministry (SIM), an organization developing leadership capacity for adaptive change in the Episcopal Church. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Hilary is also a board member of St. James Philadelphia, a tuition-free Episcopal school and vibrant community organization serving the city’s Allegheny West neighborhood. While continuing to be the full-time Rector at St. Andrew’s, Hilary was named the honorary Canon for Education and Renewal in the Diocese of Pennsylvania by Bishop Gutierrez in 2020 and led programs designed to support and form the people of the diocese to creatively engage in God’s mission during the COVID pandemic and beyond.