St. John’s new Rector is Peter Skewes-Cox. Peter was ordained a priest at St John’s in 2018, after being sponsored for ordination by St John’s and completing his Master of Divinity degree at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, CA. Before becoming Rector, Peter served at St John’s as the Associate Rector, and before coming back to St John’s, he served at Northern Nevada Episcopal churches in South Reno, Incline Village and Sparks.

Peter says “I am glad to be home. St. John’s is a place where the Holy Spirit is at work among us and within us, moving us individually and collectively towards transformation in Jesus Christ.”

Peter lives in Kingsbury, Nevada in the Tahoe Township of Douglas County. Peter and his late wife Colleen were married for 40 years, and raised their family of five children in San Francisco. Before seminary, Peter worked as a tax partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Silicon Valley until his retirement in June 2015 when they made the move to Northern Nevada. Their family has grown to include four married children and eleven grandchildren. In addition to his M.Div. from CDSP, Peter has a B.A. in Physics and Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.