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  LaRue DowningThe Rev. George LaRue Downing
Interim Rector
Church of the Holy Nativity
Honolulu, Hawaii

LaRue is a West Virginia native who received a Bachelor's Degree from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia in 1968. In 1971 he received a Master of Divinity from Virginia Theological Seminary, and he has done additional study at both Duke and Emory University. Fr. Downing was ordained to the priesthood in February 1972 in the Diocese of West Virginia and began his ministry in Huntington, West Virginia, as a University Chaplain and Rector of the small congregation of St. Peter's Church in Huntington. LaRue served two congregations in Wilmington, North Carolina, before joining the staff of the Episcopal Conference Center at Kanuga as its first full-time Director of Program. In addition, he served as the Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Augusta, Georgia, for ten years prior to his ministry with the Diocese of Upper South Carolina as Canon to the Ordinary. Following that he was Vicar of an historic rural congregation, The Episcopal Church of the Ridge, and Associate Rector of Calvary Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee, prior to his present position in Honolulu.

 
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