Virginia is from Ecuador and has lived in Europe since 1996, and came to Rome after having stayed for short periods in Amsterdam, Paris, Lyon, Toulouse, and Florence. She came to know the Anglican Church and St. Paul’s after moving to Rome. She is a candidate to the VI MunicipalContinue Reading
I first visited Rome in the summer of 2001 and moved here from the US in December of that same year. My faith journey began as a Roman Catholic, baptized as an infant, but “church” was always a duty forced upon me rather than a joy, and I stopped goingContinue Reading
Yvette has lived in Italy and has been a member of St. Paul’s for over 26 years. She is an ELT high school teacher at the Swiss School in Rome. She has been active in different activities of St. Paul’s and the JNRC over the years (Sunday School teacher, English-as-a-Foreign-LanguageContinue Reading
I believe that many people who attend St. Paul’s, or any other Church, are called by God in a special way. After my return to Rome from England in 1979, I began to attend a Catholic Church near my home with the rest of my Italian family who are Catholics.Continue Reading
Jeff was born of a Texan father and a Canadian mother in the era before cell phones, microwave ovens or man had walked on the moon. He is the middle sibling of three brothers. In an uncanny case of foreshadowing, he lived three years in Puglia as a child whenContinue Reading
Larry lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, before moving to Rome in 2007 to be with his partner Vincenzo Gulina. In the early 1970s he studied at Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center, now the John Felice Rome Center on Monte Mario. “That was when I fell in love with theContinue Reading
Dr. Fahmi Bishay has been an active member of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo, Egypt; Rotterdam, Holland; and Perth, Western Australia before coming to Rome, Italy. He joined St. Paul’s as an enthusiastic member more than fifteen years ago. Fahmi is an economist, writer, and artist. He obtained hisContinue Reading
In April, 2019, after several years’ planning, my husband, Bob, and I moved to Rome. We had worshipped at St. Paul’s Within the Walls on several previous visits to Rome, so we were sure we’d feel welcome and at home here. During our early days of becoming acclimated to aContinue Reading
Dr. Buyung Hadi is an Indonesian entomologist working for FAO. He, Nita and their two children, Theonie and Akira, moved to Rome in March 2020, in the midst of COVID-19 lockdown. Upon searching for a church with an online service option, the family stumbled upon St. Paul’s Within The Walls’Continue Reading
Senior Warden Bob is a long-time Episcopalian beginning with high school attendance at The Episcopal Academy in Philadelphia, PA. Since then, he has been a member of St James in Lancaster, PA, Heavenly Rest in New York City and Trinity Cathedral in Portland, OR. All of these relationships were theContinue Reading
