New affiliate on board

Saint Philip’s in the Hills is blessed with a new affiliate clergy, The Rev’d Canon Joanna Satorius. Reared as an Episcopalian in a rural county of Wisconsin north of Milwaukee, Mtr. Joanna later achieved undergraduate degrees from Stephens College, Columbia, Missouri, and a graduate degree with an emphasis in drawing and printmaking from the University of Iowa.

While at the Iowa university, she met and married. The couple, responding to his vocational directives, lived on Long Island, New York; the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada; and Bloomington, Illinois, before settling in Lancaster, California. They later divorced.

Mtr. Joanna has two daughters, Annalise and Gretl. Annalise is a veterinarian working in Pasadena, California; and Gretl lives with her husband Dieter in Vienna, Austria, where she teaches while pursuing a PhD from the University of Vienna in the dramaturgy of opera.

After serving in lay ministries in her local parish, Mtr. Joanna responded to a call, received her Master of Divinity, was ordained Deacon and subsequently Priest in the Diocese of Los Angeles in 1995. Upon ordination, her first call was as supervisor of students enrolled in Clinical Pastoral Education at Loma Linda University Medical Center. She was there roughly two years before being called as rector of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Riverside. In 2003, then-Bishop J. Jon Bruno called her to serve on his staff. In 2005, she was made department chair of Formation and Transition Ministry for the Diocese until her retirement in November 2020.

In June, Mtr. Joanna moved here, working remotely on behalf of the Diocese of Los Angeles to assist the transition of department leadership in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tucson relationships include former Los Angeles diocesan colleague, Mtr. Mary Trainor, and Mtr. Joanna’s sister, Katrina Hass, her husband David, and their son, Andrew. 

She looks forward to building relationships with affiliate and staff clergy at Saint Philip’s as well as the opportunity to worship with the wider community when the threat of illness is lifted.