Who’s Who in the ATC


Rear, Left to right: Rev. Ellen Norris , Very Rev. Deborah
K. Hudson, Very Rev. Bert Dudley, Rev. Roger Coleman,
Rev. Velvet Reith, Rev. Stacy Simmons, Rev. Dr. Heather
Botting, Rev. Jeanine Dale;
Front, l. to r.: Rt. Rev. Erik Lindblad, Rt. Rev.
Michele Favarger, Rt. Rev. Pete
Pathfinder Davis, Rev. Wende Northstar Davis (retired), Rt. Rev. Tamara VonForslun.

ATC headquarters:
Pete Pathfinder Davis, ATC International Archpriest; Deborah Hudson, ATC International
Archpriestess, President, Woolston-Steen
Seminary, Open Circles HPS & Festival Director; Bert Dudley,
Director of Religious Affairs; Other US leaders:
Roger Coleman, HP, Church of Iron
Oak, and Presiding Elder, Eastern US;
Velvet Reith, HPS and Stacy Simmons, HPS, Covenant of the Pentacle Wiccan
Church (New Orleans) and Presiding Elders, US Gulf states.Other nations: ATC-Canada: Erik Lindblad, Archpriest, Michele Favarger, Archpriestess,
and Heather Botting, Director. ATC-Australia: Lady Tamara VonForslun, Archpriestess,
Jeanine Dale, Maiden. ATC-Ireland APs &
AP Janet Farrar and Gavin Bone, HPS Silja Müller, HP Anthony Kemp,
ATC-Europe Presiding Elder.
Archpriest
Pete “Pathfinder” Davis, Primate of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church,
is the originator of the Aquarian Tabernacle Tradition of English Traditional-based
Wicca, and the Primate of the Aquarian Tabernacle Church, which he founded in
November of 1979, in Washington State. Pete has served two terms as president
of the Interfaith Council of Washington State, and is a long time member of the
Washington State Department of Corrections Religious Services Advisory Committee
which advises the department on religious programs in
Washington’s institutions, where in the recent past he also served for several
years as the secretary. He is also active in other Interfaith organizations and
efforts on behalf of the Wiccan communities in the Pacific Northwest, and has
taught Wicca in several area post-secondary educational facilities. He is a Regent
of The Woolston-Steen Theological
Seminary, a college-level institution which prepares Wiccan students for
service as fully competent Wiccan clergy.
Debbie
Hudson, High Priestess of the Outer Court Circle (Diana’s Bow) at the ATC in Index,
WA. is the ATC’s new International Archpriestess, and is also the Festival Director
for the church, overseeing the organization and presentation of our two major
festivals each year. Debbie is also the Regent and Dean of the Woolston-Steen
Theological Seminary. She has been major moving force within the
church without equal for many years.
Blacksun
has been Director of Religious Affairs for the ATC for 6 years and is
involved in most of its local (Washington state) activities in one form or
another. For 17 years before his coming onto the ATC Board of
Directors, he was HP for a local coven and has written articles about
Wicca for both local and national newsletters and magazines. He is
author of ‘The Spell of Making‘, a book that explains Wiccan rituals
and how to build them, and has taught many classes on that subject as well
as several other topics of interest to Pagans.Blacksun welcomes questions and comments from any and all Pagan folk and
promises to e-mail replies to everyone who writes him. He may be
reached at:

Blacksun95@aol.com

Wende
Northstar Benson has been active in the church and has served as Archpriestess
in years past. She is an herbalist and a dispensing pharmacist and remains active
in the church after her retirement from an active leadership role.

HPS Silja Muller of the Coven of the Silver Wheel of the Stars was ordained into the ATC by Rev Pete Pathfinder and Rev Debbie Hudson in September 1999. She is originally from Switzerland, but lives in Ireland, where she works as a chaplain for Pagans of all traditions, and is also the media and academic research spokesperson for the Pagan Federation.


Pete and Wende, presiding over the June, 1996 Eldering ceremony for Nybor and Elspeth, HP and HPs of Haven Community Church-ATC of Keyser, WV. The ceremony took place in the Circle of Stones at Four Quarters Farm in Artemas, Pennsylvania. Nybor and Elspeth are presented here by Jacque Zaleski of Summerland Monastery-ATC.

Michele Favarger, diminutive Archpriestess of ATC-Canada, makes a point to the towering (6’4″) Roger Coleman of the Church of Iron Oak-ATC (Florida), ATC Presiding Elder for the eastern seaboard states. The photo was taken at a recent Spring Mysteries festival, where ATC elders from across the country and across the globe often take the opportunity to exchange notes on church development and growth.


June, 1993 Interfaith Council of Washington’s reception for His Holiness The Dalai Lama (center, with Bishop Warner), held on the main altar at Seattle’s St. Mark’s, the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia, Washington. The event was attended by an enormous number of people of all faiths, filling the cathedral beyond its capacity, with many standing outside and listening over the public address system. The representatives of over thirteen varied and different religions were seated on both sides of the altar, ranging from Baha’is through Christians, Muslims and Jews, through to Zoroastrians. ATC’s Archpriest, Pete Davis, can be seen seated in the first row, third from the left, right next to the lady in white. The gentleman seated next to Bishop Warner (standing) is a ceremonial drummer from the Lummi Indian Nation.

(Photograph courtesy of Sakya Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Seattle.)

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