SAINT MARK'S PRO-CATHEDRAL
Hastings, Nebraska

The Very Reverend Richard J. Martindale

Dean Martindale and Bishop Krotz at the Dean's installation.

 Dean Richard Martindale was born in South Bend, Indiana but by the age of six the family had moved from there to Western Ohio and then to Phoenix, Arizona. His family belonged to a small denomination, the Missionary Church, which he jokes was "so conservative it would make the Baptists look liberal." His parents were both teachers, though his father served as pastor for a church in Ohio and later as a supply preacher. Except for one year when the family moved to rural Ohio, Dean Rich lived in Phoenix until he left to pursue a degree in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

Upon graduation, the Dean was commissioned as an officer in the Medical Service Corps of the U.S. Army and served tours of duty in Kentucky, Texas, Louisiana, the Federal Republic of Germany, North Carolina. He is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and has been awarded the Expert Field Medical Badge, the Parachutist Badge, the Air Assault Badge and numerous merit and service medals.

Dean Rich left the Army after nearly thirteen years of service to follow a call to Virgina Theological Seminary and Holy Orders. He was ordained to the Diaconate by the Right Reverend B. Sidney Sanders, Bishop of East Carolina and to the Priesthood by the Right Reverend Robert O. Miller, Ninth Bishop of Alabama. Before being called as the tenth Dean of Saint Mark's Pro-Cathedral, he served as Curate for Saint John's Episcopal Church in Decatur, Alabama.

Dean Martindale left St. Mark's to become Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Columbus, Georgia, in 2005.

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