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.