The Rev. Francene Young, Long-term Supply Vicar

The Rev. Francene Young is currently serving as a Long-term Supply Vicar at St. Luke the Evangelist. She graduated from the Episcopal Diocese of Texas’ Iona School for Ministry. After successfully completing the three-year program, Francene was ordained a Transitional Deacon in 2011 and a Priest in January 2012.  She is one of several bi-vocational priests in the Diocese of Texas. She serves as the Dean of Administration for the Iona School for Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.

Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, she attended the Baptist Church until being introduced to the Episcopal Church as a teen. At age seventeen, the Rev. Young joined the Episcopal Church, after participating in a citywide Episcopal youth group in the Diocese of Ohio. When she was a junior in college, she led a parish on Cleveland's near west side during their transition between rectors. In the Episcopal Church, she has been Senior Warden, Treasurer, Head of Lay Ministries, Verger, Christian Formation instructor, and Lay Eucharistic Minister.

In addition to her position at St. Luke, the Rev. Young served ten years as the Chair of the Diocese of Texas Commission on Ministry and was a member of the Commission on Black Ministry and the Committee on College Ministry. She served as the president of the board of trustees for Westover School, an all-girls private school in Middlebury, Connecticut, her alma mater.

Francene has a Master's Degree in Public Health (MPH) from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and an undergraduate in Social Services from Cleveland State University. She is married to Kenneth Jones.