The Rev. Dr. Dale Truscott

Interim Priest-in-Charge

The Rev. Dr. Dale Truscott is a native of Dayton, Ohio. He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, and Hamma School of Theology. He studied Biblical Archeology and Historical Geography in Jerusalem, Israel, while serving as Pastor to the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer. He then served three parishes in Ohio, including Olivet Lutheran, Sylvania. He received the D.Min. degree from the Graduate Theological Foundation and studied for a Ph.D. there. Dale served as an interim pastor at many parishes in Southeast Michigan, ending his active career at Holy Faith Episcopal and Lutheran Church, in Saline, Michigan, a congregation that he brought together in merger. He is licensed as a priest in the Central Florida Diocese to serve at St. Richard’s and is canonically resident in the Florida Bahamas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. 

   Dale lives in Orlando with his husband Kin Xuxa. He teaches part-time at Valencia College east campus. He and Kin enjoy their travels. This year (2026) they will visit a small village in Cornwall, England, from which came Samuel Truscott, Dale’s great-great-grandfather who was baptized at St Stephen-in-Brannel, a parish church dating from the 13th century. Dale enjoys the game of Duplicate Bridge at the Orlando Bridge Club, which meets at St Richard’s.

The Rev. Dr. Harry S. Coverston

Assistant Clergy

I am a sixth generation Floridian, a fourth generation educator, third generation college educator. My great-grandparents were named Reed and Wright, so I guess it was fate that I would end up a teacher. I am a recovering lawyer who still holds an inactive license with the Florida Bar (I last practiced in 1990) and was ordained an Episcopal priest in the Diocese of El Camino Real (CA) in 1995. My spirituality is nature mystic. I am Celt to the bone so that makes sense. I am also Franciscan to my very core, a professed member of 35 years in the Third Order Society of St. Francis (TSSF) and the convenor of the local San Damiano Fellowship. Andy, my gentle-souled, soft-spoken partner of 52 years became my legal husband in 2010 on the steps of the US Supreme Court. He is G-d's greatest gift to my life. I live within two hours of my nuclear family members. I hold a Ph.D. in Religion, Law, and Society from Florida State University, an M.Div. from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) Berkeley, CA, and a J.D. and a B.A. in History and Secondary Education from the University of Florida. I completed Richard Rohr’s Living School for Contemplation and Action in Albuquerque, NM, in 2017. I am owned by two former feral cats and two dogs, a dachshund and an energetic beagle. I tend a Jungle I maintain in the heart of Orlando whose green wall of trees and tropical vegetation provides enough tranquility that I can pray, meditate, and write. I care about religion and politics, which, like Gandhi, I am clear are related. I retired from 13 years as lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Central Florida in 2014. I consider it an honor to work with my colleagues and parishioners at St. Richards.

The Rev. Dr. Thomas Downs

Assistant Clergy

“Father Tom holds M.A. degrees in Church History, Theology and Education from Notre Dame, and a doctorate in Adult Spirituality from the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became an Episcopal priest and became director of the Florida Council of Churches in the late 1970’s, and then a cathedral canon at St. Luke’s Cathedral in Orlando. From there he moved on to become Canon to the Ordinary for both Bishop William Folwell and Bishop John Howe in Central Florida. He spent 11 years as rector of St. Paul’s Church in Albany, Ga., where he became founding president of the Flint River Habitat in Albany. In 2003 he returned to central Florida as rector of St. Richard’s in Winter Park. Since retirement there, he has been consulting and supplying in parishes both in the dioceses of Central and Southwest Florida. He has spent the year (2016-2017) as interim rector of St. Thomas Episcopal Church, on Snell Island in St. Petersburg, FL. He feels privileged to serve along with Fathers Dale Truscott and Harry Coverston during this interim period.