Canonically Resident Priest
Rector at St. Andrew’s, Albany
I was born and raised in Poughkeepsie, NY. I attended college at SUNY Geneseo and SUNY Albany, graduating in 1986. Summers, I worked at Beaver Cross Camp near Cooperstown. I worked for Albany County Probation Department for 4 years after college and then went to seminary at Yale Divinity School. I was priested in 1994 and married my husband Marco Brucher that same year. Marco is a LICSW working in private practice. Marco comes from Switzerland where his family still resides. I have served parishes in Westfield, MA, Penn Yan, NY, Wiesbaden Germany and Newburyport Massachusetts. Most recently I have been serving as Regional Canon for the North and West of the Diocese of Massachusetts. Marco and I have two grown children, Marcella and Nicolas. Marcella is an elementary school teacher in the Boston area and Nicolas is in College at RIT studying Mechanical Engineering. Marco and I are living in Delmar with our little dog Mocha, while we are having a house built in Castleton, NY. We enjoy daily walks, hiking, kyaking, reading, traveling and time with friends & family. I feel blessed to be called to serve St. Andrew’s Albany, in EDOA.