Our Leadership Team
Priest in Charge
Additional Clergy
Rev. Ula Ruddock
Rev. Louis Steffenhagen
Priest in Charge
Since February of 2022, Father (formerly Deacon) Lou has been serving in the leadership role at Epiphany Royersford, working closely with the Vestry and congregation as they rebuild. On February 27, 2023, then-Deacon Lou was assigned the position of Clergy in Charge at Epiphany.
He’s been part of the Episcopal faith since 2009. After receiving a call to the diaconate, he undertook Diaconal formation at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral using studies from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, located in New York City, and visiting professors. He took his clinicals at Grandview Hospital and Pastoral Education at Penn Foundation in Sellersville. He was formally ordained as a Deacon in 2018. He has served as a volunteer Chaplain for Reading Rehab Hospital, Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, and Phoenixville Hospital, as well as working as a Hospice volunteer for Heartland Hospice in Broomall. He also volunteered at Good Samaritan men’s shelter in Phoenixville.
Lou’s original parish is Christ Episcopal Church in Pottstown, PA, where he served on Vestry, Property, and Choir. After entering the Diaconate Program in 2014, he served at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Phoenixville, followed by St. James Episcopal Church in Collegeville, where he was ordained as a Deacon and served as Deacon.
Most recently, Lou was ordained an Episcopal priest on May 18, 2024.
Father Lou has been married for 50 years to Janet and they reside in Pottstown, PA. They have two sons, six grandchildren, and one great-granddaughter.
Lou recently retired from his secular job, working for a tooling and MRO (Maintenance, Repair, and Operations) supplier, having been in manufacturing for almost 46 years. His hobby is working with G-scale trains, he enjoys the outdoors whenever he can, and he LOVES COFFEE (but not as much as he loves God and his family!).
Ula was born to Beatrice and Lascelles Watson on December 25, 1961, in the parish of Westmoreland, Jamaica.
She is married to Erdley and was blessed with three loving children, two boys and a girl, who are all married and have gifted her with five grandchildren.
She received her education in Jamaica and had her spiritual formation in the Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Grange Hill, Westmoreland.
She participated in all the programs in the church and headed many groups. She later enrolled in the Supplementary Ministry Programme in the Diocese of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands while she held her job as a banker for 27 years.
In June 2013 she was ordained a Deacon and in November 2015 as a Priest in the Supplementary Ministry where she served in the Holy Trinity Cure, Grange Hill and the Bluefields Cure in Bluefields, Westmoreland, Jamaica.
In July 2023 she migrated to the United States and found a loving and caring family at the Church of the Epiphany in Spring City, PA, where she worships and assists with services.
Vestry
(Governing body)
Jonathan Bailey
Senior Warden
Jonathan was born into the Episcopal faith and as a boy served as an acolyte in his church. After losing touch with the church during his teens and twenties, he found it again following his wedding and the baptism of his children, serving as a Sunday School teacher at their parish in Maryland. After a job change and relocation, Jonathan became associated with Epiphany Episcopal Church around 2017 and soon thereafter joined its Vestry, where he is in his second three-year term. He also serves as the church’s “Digital Disciple,” overseeing the church’s streaming of Sunday Services on YouTube as well as the maintenance of its website. Outside of church, his interests are time with his wife Lisa and his daughters Abby and Sarah (when they’re available!), as well as participation in his Masonic Lodge.
Paul Atlee
Treasurer
Paul lives in Collegeville with his wife Patricia (Trish) and twin sons Trent and Travis (11 years old). Trent is on the Autism spectrum and being part of a church family that accepts him and enables the Atlee’s to worship together means the world!
They have been members of Epiphany since 2011 and were married at Epiphany that same year.
Paul previously served two terms on Epiphany's vestry (2013-2019), as Accounting Warden and then Senior Warden. He rejoined the Vestry in 2022 to lend a hand with the transition to Epiphany 2.0 and what comes next. Come and see!
Outside of family and church, Paul is a program manager at a financial firm.
Trish Atlee
Parish Communications
Trish, her husband, Paul , and their two sons have been members of Epiphany for over 10 years. They were married at Epiphany and their twin boys were baptized at Epiphany as well. In addition to serving on Vestry, Trish is an avid baker and enjoys volunteering her time to many of the various church-related activities and missions. In her spare time, Trish enjoys playing softball and visiting the beach with her family.
Julie Dattilo
People’s Warden
Julie has been an Episcopalian all her life and has lived in Royersford for 24 years.
She loves working as an elementary school science teacher and also loves the outdoors.
Linda Dean
Missions Coordinator
Biography is coming soon!
Kay Alexander
Secretary
Kay came to Church of the Epiphany by a long and circuitous route. As a child (in the California desert on the Mexican border) she occasionally attended church but those experiences were not always positive. Though not being a member of a church for most of her life, she was always searching and read many spiritual books — looking back, the books seemed to appear in a logical, divinely guided sequence! Kay and her husband, a neuroscientist, raised their three children in Florida, Texas, and Pennsylvania.
Kay worked as a secretary for 25 years at the private school her children attended. In December 2023, Kay was invited to attend services at Epiphany by friends who are long-time members and the time felt right. She was delighted to find such a welcoming, accepting community and has been attending ever since. She joined the Vestry in August 2024 to fill the vacant Vestry Secretary position. Outside of church, Kay spends her time in retirement being Nana to six grandchildren, cheering on the Phillies and Eagles, biking and kayaking, and reading as many books as humanly possible.
Sunday School Leader
Music Leader
Jeremy Fanucci
Music Director
Jeremy’s journey with music began at the young age of five. After more than 10 years of private lessons, he branched out on his own and discovered a love for various styles of music. In 1998, he joined the United States Marine Corps where he received on-the-job training with the United States Marine Band and was eventually enrolled at the Armed Forces School of Music in Little Creek, VA.
The year 2006 brought him back home to Pennsylvania where he attended West Chester University's School of Music, majoring in Piano. With nearly 40 years of playing under his belt, he still enjoys sharing his love of music with others through playing for various local churches and gigs for holiday parties, etc. As a resident of East Vincent Township, he is very much looking forward to the opportunity to serve in this capacity for the family at Church of the Epiphany.
Betsy Caldwell
Sunday School Teacher
Biography is coming soon!