A New Call for Kate Salisbury ’14

Kate Salisbury (l) with her husband Ian (r), and their two daughters, Virginia and Jane.

The Rev. Katherine Salisbury, Class of 2014, has been appointed Canon for Christian Formation at the Cathedral of the Incarnation, Diocese of Long Island. Salisbury will lead the cathedral’s Fellowship in Faith and Family Ministry programs, coordinate inter-generational Christian formation events, curate the Dean’s Forum, and fully participate in the liturgical life of the cathedral. She will have special responsibility for Cathedral for Kids, a service for the young and the young at heart which is the centerpiece of children’s ministry at the cathedral.

Salisbury has pursued her love of creative Christian education in Episcopal schools and churches since 2004. She has served as Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries at St. James’ Church, Madison Avenue, Director of Christian Education at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn and, most recently, Associate Rector at St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church and Pro-Cathedral, where her focus was family worship and Sunday School. 

For years, Salisbury has created original, faith-based curricula that incorporate love of God and the natural world, Biblical literacy, service work, and the arts. These include the recent Instruments of Peace puppet and songwriting series on the legacy of St. Francis and a Psalms project in which children create illuminated manuscripts using medieval techniques. Over the years, she has had the pleasure of serving as a school, camp and hospital chaplain, and of leading numerous youth service trips. 

Salisbury holds a Masters of Divinity from Yale University and a Masters of Sacred Theology, cum laude, from General. For her thesis project at GTS, she designed a pilgrimage from the statue of Minerva in Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. 

Salisbury currently serves on The Cathedral Chapter and sits on the board of the Mercer School, where she has been active in implementing Sacred Ground, the Episcopal Church’s anti-racism curriculum, in the diocese. She is a longtime member and former president of the Brooklyn Heights Interfaith Clergy Association.