The Rev. John A. Weatherly retired after 22 years at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Alexandria, Va. He attended the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., graduating in 1973 with a B.A. in American History. While there he played on the soccer team, and the Intercollegiate whitewater canoe team. During those summers he worked in the hut system of the Appalachian Mountain Club in New Hampshire. After graduate work at Duke University he taught school in Portsmouth, and Charlottesville, Virginia. In 1978 he entered the Divinity School at Yale University. While there he completed two units of Clinical Pastoral Education at the Yale University Mental Health unit, and later at St. Elisabeth’s Hospital in Washington, D.C. Upon graduation and ordination, the Bishop of New Jersey appointed John as Vicar to St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church and Christ Episcopal Church in Trenton, New Jersey. In 1986 he and the Rev. Beverly K. Hill were married and appointed as Missioners to Igreja Episcopal do Brasil, serving in Brasilia, Brasil from 1986 to 1989. Their daughter Kathryn was born in 1987 and their son Andrew in 1988.

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Returning to the United States in 1989, John was elected Rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Hampstead, North Carolina. John served on the board of the Episcopal Farmworker’s community in Newton, North Carolina, and the Executive Board of the Diocese. Their daughter Maegan was born in 1990. In 1993 John was called as Associate Rector to St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Darien, Ct. In 1996 Beverly was elected Associate Rector at Christ Church, Alexandria, Va. and John as Rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Alexandria and Vicar of Iglesia Episcopal de San Marcos.

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John retired with the rank of Colonel from the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps in 2011, serving as Joint Forces Command Chaplain to the Virginia National Guard. In 2001 he served in Bosnia on a NATO mission and later deployed to Iraq in 2006-2007 with the 2/224th, an Army aviation unit, serving with the 3rd Marine Air Wing, in Al Asad, Iraq. John served in the Diocese of Virginia on various committees, including the Hispanic Church Plant committee and the Executive Committee of the Diocese. In 2020, Beverly, while Rector of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Leonardtown, MD., was diagnosed with AML leukemia and died May 28th, 2021.

John has served as Interim Rector at Our Saviour Episcopal Church, Silver Spring, MD., and Wicomico Episcopal Parish in the Northern Neck of Virginia. His three children live within three hours of Alexandria and John is the grandfather of 9 wonderful grandchildren. They share a house in Randolph, New Hampshire through the summer.