Nancy Ludwig to be ordained Feb. 19 at Good Shepherd

RANGELEY – Nancy Ludwig will be ordained to the Episcopal Sacred Order of Priests at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19, by the Rev. Thomas J. Brown, 10th bishop of Maine.
The ordination will be at Church of the Good Shepherd, 2614 Main St. The public is invited. The service will include ancient prayers and music associated with ordinations for centuries, and will involve the participation of clergy from throughout the state of Maine and beyond.

Nancy Greig Shearer Ludwig was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, and attended St. Margaret’s Diocesan School for Girls. She received degrees in organ performance from The Curtis Institute and the Yale University School of Music. She has served various parishes, as well as the Cathedral of the Incarnation in New York, and St. John’s Episcopal Church, in Bangor, as organist and choir director. She completed the Foundations Program in Christian Theology at the George Mercer Jr. Memorial School of Theology and was a mentor for the Education for Ministry program at St. John’s Episcopal Church. She was ordained a transitional deacon by Brown in August 2022, and anticipates continuing her ministry at Good Shepherd while also assisting other parishes in need of supply clergy.
The Rev. Lloyd A. Lewis, canon theologian to the Bishop of Long Island and professor of New Testament emeritus at Virginia Theological Seminary, will preach at the ordination. He was the first Black graduate of Saint Stephen’s School in Alexandria, Virginia, and was a classics scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, before earning a Ph.D. at Yale University.
A special choir is being formed to sing for the service, including singers from Good Shepherd Church, Rangeley Community Chorus, St. John’s Episcopal Church and Garden City, New York’s Cathedral of the Incarnation. The music will include 9th century plainsong, Gospel music classics, a Renaissance Latin motet and a piece composed especially for the ordination.
For more information, call Good Shepherd’s parish office at 207-864-3381 or email admin@goodshepherdrangeley.org.