Our Team
The Rev’d. Fr. Kevin M. Bell, Rector
Fr. Bell has lived in Denver most of his life, and has been attending St. Mary’s Church for over twenty years. A late vocation Priest, he worked in a variety of positions and owned two small businesses before he received his call to Holy Orders in 2008. He earned a Certificate in Christian Studies from Fuller Theological Seminary and an MA in Christian Formation and Soul Care from Denver Seminary while working and while serving Saint Mary’s at the altar as Master of Ceremonies, and on the Vestry as Senior Warden. He was ordained into the Diaconate in 2013, and ordained as a Priest in 2017. He was called by the Parish to serve as Rector in 2019.
Fr. Bell is dedicated to serving the members of our Parish, and to serving the community at large. He is married to his wife Penny and has two remarkable daughters, Nikki and Mary.
The Rev. Abbot Patrick Maclean, OSSP, DLitt
Our Assisting Priest since 2019, Abbot Maclean is a native Floridian (from Southern ancestry!) who lives in Littleton with his wife, Laura, who serves as Director of Music Ministry at Light of the World Catholic Church.
After earning his BA from LaGrange College in Georgia, Abbot Maclean went on to earn his MA from the University of Southern Mississippi, and undertook post-graduate studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was a Shakespeare scholar and served on the directorial staff of the famed Colorado Shakespeare Festival.
Answering a call to the Anglican priesthood, Abbot Maclean enrolled in St. Andrew’s Theological College and Seminary in Lexington, North Carolina in 2003. He was ordained to the diaconate in 2005 and to the priesthood in 2006 in the Orthodox Anglican Church. From then until July 2009, he served as Precentor (priest-director of music) for Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington. In 2006, Abbot Maclean was appointed Vicar of Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Huntersville, North Carolina, with a ministry to the people of the Lake Norman region and served in that capacity until 2018 when he moved to Colorado.
Transferring into the United Episcopal Church of North America in 2012, from then until 2018 Abbot Maclean served as Chancellor of that Jurisdiction, advising the Archbishop, House of Bishops, and House of Deputies on Canon Law matters.
Abbot Maclean received his Doctorate in 2020 and currently serves as Professor of Liturgics at St Timothy’s Theological College and Seminary. He previously taught classes in Liturgics, Anglican Church music, and Protocol at St. Andrew’s Theological College and Seminary.
A member of the Order of Saint Stephen the Protomartyr (an Anglican-Augustinian order), he was elected the second Abbot in 2016.
