Ordained in 1948, the Rev. Dr. Claudius I. Vermilye, Jr. was a seminary graduate of Sewanee, the University of the South. The divorced father of five served at Christ Church, Alto, Tennessee from 1953 to 1962 and St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Tifton, Georgia before becoming the director of Tennessee Boys
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Spotlight on abuse: Episcopal priest Charles W. Appel, Jr.
The Rev. Charles W. Appel, Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh renounced his priesthood in the Episcopal Church voluntarily in 2001, after charges were brought against him under the church’s clergy disciplinary canons during the tenure of Bishop Robert Duncan. General Seminary graduate Appel was administrator of the diocesan
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