Church of Our Savior, Manhattan, Has New Priest-in-Charge

The Rev. Ada Wong-Nagata, DMin

The Episcopal New Yorker newspaper of the Diocese of New York announced that the Rev. Dr. Ada Wong-Nagata was appointed Priest-in-Charge of the Church of Our Savior, Manhattan, by Bishop Andy Dietsche.

Mother Ada, who is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, previously served as Associate Rector of Our Saviour Episcopal Church in San Gabriel, CA, and is serving "On Assignment" from that parish to the Diocese of New York.

In September of this year, Mother Ada wrote to her parish in California, "Many thanks to the vision of Mrs. Frances Vinton from Providence, Rhode Island to build three Churches of The Savior from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Because of her vision and donation, Church of Saviour, San Gabriel was born in 1867. This year we are celebrating our 150th Anniversary. I am writing to let you know that Church of Our Saviour on the Pacific side will soon have some relationship with Church of Our Savior on the Atlantic side."

In the Diocese of Los Angeles Mother Ada served seven years as Convener of the Chinese Convocation of Episcopal Asian American Ministries and is chairperson of  the Chinese Ministry Advisory Committee. She is a member of the Multicultural Ministry committee, the Commission on Ministry, the diocesan Disciplinary Board, and the EAM commission. Also, she serves on the boards of the Li Tim-Oi Center, a Chinese Ministry Center of the Episcopal Church; and Bloy House of the Episcopal Theological School at Claremont. She recently visited Asian Anglican Dioceses overseas accompanying Bishop Diane Bruce, Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan. 

In 2015, Mother Ada earned a Doctor of Ministry degree (DMin) from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA.

She began her work in New York on October 11, 2016.




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