The Rev’d Winston W. Welty Rector Emeritus
About Fr. Win:
Fr. Winston Welty served as Rector of St. Alban’s from 1982-2000, having previously served as Rector of Trinity Church Gulph Mills, and Senior Associate at St. David’s Radnor.
Following his “retirement,” he did interim ministry in the Diocese for 7 years before retiring again and moving to central Mexico for 12 years. While there, he once more “unretired” to become Rector of a local Anglican congregation. He and his wife Mary recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They have 4 adult children, 10 grandchildren, and 4 great grandchildren.
A Texas native, Fr. Winston received his religious start early in life. “I was almost born into the faith. My parents were from a Southern Baptist fundamentalist background in Texas. My mother came from the Church of the Nazarene and my father was Pastor of a Nazarene congregation in Dallas. We moved a lot and lived all over the place: Texas, Oklahoma, Illinois, New York City, the Virgin Islands, then New York City again. ”
In 1963, Fr. Winston began attending the Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia. He points out that “both my father and I were ordained on the same date, December 17th. My father’s ordination was in 1948; mine was in 1966. Not only that, my father died on that same day in 1999. So this year I am coming up on the 60th anniversary of my ordination to the Priesthood.”
Since returning to Pennsylvania, Fr. Winston has been named Rector Emeritus of St. Alban’s, where he serves on Sundays at the Rector’s pleasure.