About Us
Leadership
Meet our clergy, staff, and vestry.
Clergy:
The Right Reverend Frank S. Logue
D.Min., Bishop of Georgia
bishop@gaepiscopal.org
Born in Montgomery, Alabama, where he lived for 6 years, Frank Logue grew up in Marietta, Georgia. A 1984 graduate of Georgia Southern University, he worked as a photographer for two small daily newspapers in Georgia— the Warner Robins Daily Sun and the Rome News-Tribune. Frank married Victoria Steele in 1985. The Logues hiked the entire 2,150-mile Appalachian Trail in a single six-month long hike in 1988. Three years later, after he worked as an Art Director for a non-profit, Frank and Victoria went full-time as freelance writer-photographers, writing books, and magazine articles. Their daughter, Mary Griffin Logue, born in 1991 added great joy and wonder to our lives.
In 1995, Frank responded to a long-felt call to ordained ministry. He entered Virginia Theological Seminary in the fall of 1997. While there, he worked as a seminarian at two area churches, including assisting with the creation of a new Episcopal church—Church of the Spirit in Alexandria, Virginia. He also took part in summer internships with the Anglican Church in Tanzania and St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, a large mental hospital in Washington, D.C. In 2000, Victoria, Griffin, and Frank moved to Camden County, spending 10 years starting King of Peace Episcopal Church and its preschool. From 2010 until becoming Bishop of Georgia, he has assisted Bishop Scott Benhase in overseeing the clergy and congregations of the Diocese of Georgia as Canon to the Ordinary.
Logue was ordained and consecrated as Bishop of Georgia at Christ Church, Savannah, on May 30, 2020.
The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia includes 18,561 members who worship in 71 parishes throughout our state.
The Reverend Dwayne Varas – Rector
dwayneavaras@gmail.com
Dwayne was born and raised in Tampa, Florida. A former Roman Catholic, He was ordained a priest in 2001. Fr. Varas has served as Rector of St. Thomas in Thomasville Georgia, Assistant Rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Naples, Florida and School Principal and Assistant to the Rectot of St. James Episcopal Church in Ormand Beach, Florida. He previously taught in both Catholic and Episcopal schools and served Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Tampa, Florida as its Parochial Vicar.
Varas holds a B.S. from the University of South Florida; a License in Philosophy from the St. Michael Pontifical Institute in Spokane, Washington; a Master of Divinity from the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley, California (2001) and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from General Theological Seminary (2009).
Dwayne is “living his best life” giving TLC to his wife, Elizabeth, and his children, Isabel and Emma.
Staff:
Nikole Powell, Head of Preschool
Nikole has been with St. Elizabeth’s Preschool serving on the Board before it WAS a preschool. With the help of the Preschool Advisory Committee she helped to bring the dream of a preschool to fruition in 2012. Within two years of St. E’s first day, we went from 7 students to 56 students. We have proudly educated and enriched hundreds of students over the years.
Nikole went to The Ohio State University with a Major in Early Childhood Development and a Minor in Equine Sciences. She worked for John Hancock Financial Services selling Long Term Care products for many years before welcoming her first child, Luciana, in 2006. She moved to Richmond Hill in 2010 and had Angelina and Lincoln in 2009. Both Angelina and Lincoln are St. Elizabeth’s Preschool Graduates!
Nikole continues to be the proud Director of St. Elizabeth’s Preschool with her wonderful staff and teachers.