The Rev'd Dr. Charles Miller was instituted as the sixth rector of the Church of the Transfiguration on the Feast of Saint Michael & All Angels, September 29, 2000, by the Rt. Rev'd Mark S. Sisk, Bishop Coadjutor of New York. Fr. Miller came to the Little Church Around the Corner from Nashotah House Episcopal Seminary in Wisconsin, where he had served since 1995 as the Michael and Joan Ramsey Professor of Theology.
A life-long Episcopalian born in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 1956, Fr. Miller was educated
at St. Hilda's and St. Hugh's School on Morningside Heights in Manhattan and received
his B.A. and M.A. in classical languages and literature at Franklin & Marshall College
and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, respectively. Fr. Miller attended Nashotah
House Seminary and received his Master of Divinity degree with distinction in 1982.
Ordained deacon and priest in the Diocese of Dallas, Fr. Miller served his curacy at St. Andrew's Church, Farmers Branch, Texas, but two years later took up an ecumenical post as Warden of the House of St. Gregory and St. Macrina, a residence and study center for Eastern and Western Christian unity, in Oxford, England. During his seven years as Warden, Fr. Miller had chief administrative, pastoral and program responsibility for the House and initiated international ecumenical and educational programs, including the Anglican Studies Summer Seminar for American Episcopalians, of which he was founder-director. At the same time Fr. Miller was Assistant Chaplain of Keble College, ministering to a student body of three hundred. During that time he was an Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow and received the doctor of philosophy degree from Oxford University in 1990.
In 1991 Fr. Miller was appointed priest-in-charge of St. Michael & All Angels Church in New Marston, Oxford, a largely working-class suburban parish of the city dating from the period of intense industrial expansion between the wars. Revitalization of the parish included the establishment of an independent, church-community charitable trust to meet social needs and the building of a pastoral center for church and community use.
In 1995 Fr. Miller was appointed the first Michael and Joan Ramsey Professor of Theology at Nashotah House where Archbishop Ramsey had taught Fr. Miller when he was a divinity student. In addition to the teaching of historical, Anglican and ascetical theology, Fr. Miller served as sub-dean and director of the Master of Sacred Theology program.
Fr. Miller complemented his teaching ministry with pastoral work as priest-in-charge of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Watertown, Wisconsin, in the Diocese of Milwaukee.
Fr. Miller has been active as a retreat leader and spiritual director, an ecumenist, and lecturer and preacher in the United States, the United Kingdom and continental Europe. In addition to popular and scholarly essays and articles, he has published three books, Toward a Fuller Vision: Orthodoxy and the Anglican Experience (1984), Praying the Eucharist: Reflections on the Eucharistic Experience of God (1995), and The Gift of the World: An Introduction to the Theology of Dumitru Staniloae (2000).
In 1987 Fr. Miller married his English wife, Judith, who holds a D.Phil. in Education from Oxford University. She worked as a psychotherapist at Rogers Memorial Hospital, outside of Milwaukee, and as a therapist in private practice in New York. The Millers have a son, Michael. The Millers enjoy gardening, fell walking, travel, music and the arts.
