The Rev. Daniel Bentley

Daniel Bentley comes to St. James the Less from St. David's Episcopal Church in Washington, DC, where he served as a seminarian and transitional deacon while completing his Master of Divinity at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria.

Before ordination, Daniel spent more than a decade as a journalist and editor in New York City, working at publications including Fortune and Morning Brew. He came to The Episcopal Church in 2020 as a member of St. Philip's in the Highlands in Garrison, NY, and soon began to discern a call to ordained ministry.

He cares deeply about connecting people to the love of Jesus through Word and Sacrament, and his theological interests include liturgy, church history, and interfaith reconciliation, including how Christians read the Hebrew Scriptures well and faithfully.

Ordained to the transitional diaconate in February, Daniel will be ordained to the priesthood on September 12 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

He and his wife Kari have been married for 15 years. They have a young son, Rowan, and a rescue mutt named Frankie. All four of them are thrilled to be coming home to New York.