Meet our Clergy and Staff

Mtr. Christina Hunter became the 24th Rector of St. Peter's Church in April 2024 after serving for a time as priest-in-charge.

She previously served in priestly ministry as the co-founder of Oaks of Righteousness, a church mission in Troy, NY, and as an interim priest at St. John’s Church in Troy.

Mtr. Christina earned her Master of Divinity degree from Trinity School for Ministry in 2010 and was ordained in the same year. Before going to seminary, she worked as a newspaper reporter, covering crime, education and general assignment stories in California, Texas, and Oklahoma. She grew up among the hills of Appalachian Ohio.

Mtr. Christina is married to Fr. Paul Hunter, and they have two school aged children. In her free time, Mtr. Christina enjoys writing, hiking, playing ukulele, and having coffee with friends.

Mr. Daniel Romero, CAGO, has been Organist and Choirmaster of St. Peter's Church since October 2023.

Daniel is a Denver, CO native and most recently served as Director of Music at Grace Church in Newark, NJ, and Professor of Organ at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Denver, where he was a student of Dr. Joseph Galema, and his undergraduate studies were with Dr. Joyce Shupe Kull, FAGO, at Metropolitan State University of Denver. Daniel previously served at Church of the Ascension in Denver, and St. Mary’s Episcopal Church in Barnstable, MA. He also served for ten years at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Denver. Daniel was a featured recitalist at the 2017 Convention of the American Institute of Organ Builders in Fort Collins, CO, the 2015 Organ Historical Society Convention in Western Massachusetts, and the 2005 POE held in Denver. He has presented workshops at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the American Institute of Organ Builders. He is currently writing a history of the pipe organ in Colorado and documenting all pipe organs in the state.

Daniel’s other interests include playing the theater pipe organ, organ building, running, cooking, travel, and history.

Mr. Malcolm Moran serves as Assistant Music Director at St. Peter's.

Malcolm grew up in our choir, joining as a treble at a young age. He went to study music at the university, and post-college has taken instruction in playing organ.

Malcolm's duties at our parish include playing organ, assisting in running rehearsals for children and adults, doing music planning, and playing music for our 8:30 Sunday communion service.

Laura Saffares has led our children in their walk of faith for many years through Bible stories, crafts, and seasonal activities like prayer pretzel making, pumpkin bread baking, Last Supper re-enactment and egg coloring/hunt.

Ruth Manss is our office manager, running day to day operations at our downtown location and returning phone and email correspondence. Some of Ruth's other duties include editing and publishing our monthly newsletter.

Janice Chenot has served St. Peter's faithfully over the years in many roles, including her work as office volunteer. We're very grateful for her generosity in sharing her time and considerable skills in finance, graphic design, and administration with our parish.

Pat Shortall has served as the sexton of St. Peter's Church since 1986. Pat serves a complex role at the church, balancing cleaning duties, light repairs, maintenance, liturgical upkeep and preparation of the worship space, building access, shopping for supplies, and more.

Wayne Hill came to St. Peter's Church more than seven years ago, specializing in extending hospitality to visitors and tourists through the week by opening our church for prayer and meditation from 12 to 2 pm an most weekdays. Wayne also works faithfully alongside Pat to clean and maintain the church and Guild House for our parishioners.

Connie has served for more than 5 years as our Historian and Archivist. She both gathers and preserves materials that are important to our church history, as well as the wider history of Albany. If you'd like to meet with Connie, call her at (518) 479-1318 to set up an appointment ahead of time.