Clergy at Caroline Church

Father Richard Dennis Visconti was born and educated in New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Hunter College, a Masters in Divinity from Sacred Heart School of Theology and a Doctorate in Ministry from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He also attended the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest in Austin Texas. He was ordained to the Priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1981 ministering as a Hospital Chaplain in Arizona.

Father Visconti was received into the Episcopal Church in 1985. Father Visconti was Assistant Rector at St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, New York from 1985-1990 and Rector of St. Mary's Church in Charleroi, Pennsylvania from 1990-1995. He comes to Caroline Church from St. Michael's Episcopal Church and Day School in Carmichael, California, where he was Rector since 1995. Fr. Visconti is a chaplain in the Order of St. Luke, served as Ecumenical Officer for the Diocese of Northern California, Province VIII coordinator for ecumenical affairs, and President of the North State Ecumenical Conference. He has been the Ecumenical Officer for the Diocese of Long Island since coming to Caroline Church, has been Province II coordinator for ecumenical affairs, serves on the Ecclesiastical Court for the Diocese, and is a member of the board of directors for Protestant Campus Ministry, the Long Island Council of Churches, Meals on Wheels and Stony Brook Hospital Ethics Committee.

Father Visconti is married to Janna, and they have two children, Cassie and Andrew.

Caroline's Curate, Ann Tillman, was born in Alaska and raised in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Communication from Cornell University and a Master of Divinity degree (2008) from The General Theological Seminary in New York City. She served prior to seminary at Grace Episcopal Church in Elmira, NY, and during seminary at the Church of the Incarnation in Manhattan and at the Church of the Atonement in the Bronx. Following ordination to the transitional deaconate, she continued to serve at Atonement as Deacon and Pastoral Associate. She was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priests on February 21, 2009, and celebrated her first Eucharist at the historic altar of Caroline Church on February 22, 2009.

Mother Ann is married to Jason Tillman, a math teacher at the Queens High School for Information, Research, and Technology in Far Rockaway. They have two grown sons, Robert and Daniel Collins. In her spare time, Mother Ann enjoys reading, cross-stitch, and listening to all kinds of music—from Plainsong to Punk Rock.

Mother Ann hopes to use her gifts in the areas of pastoral care, liturgy and music, and communication to help create a sacred space where people come to know and love God, and to know themselves as God's beloved children, empowered by the Holy Spirit to be Christ's presence in the world.