Bruce MacDuffie earned both Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry in Preaching degrees from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary.  He is canonically resident in Central New York and licensed in that  diocese as well as in New Hampshire and Vermont. He retired from the Diocese of Central New York in 2005, and moved to North Dakota where for the following five and one-half years he served as adjunct professor at Dickinson State University teaching world religions, Bible courses, and philosophy, and was also the rector of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Dickinson until late 2010.  Then he returned to Central New York serving as priest in charge of the Episcopal Church of the Epiphany in Sherburne until spring of 2015. He and his late wife Lee moved to Westminster, VT, in 2015, where Bruce served three terms as Justice of the Peace and also volunteered with his wife for Westminster Cares, a service that provides rides for clients and  delivers meals and helps in other cases of need in the community.  For a time he was supply priest at St. John’s in Walpole, NH, and also served about half of the Sundays at Immanuel, Bellows Falls for almost two years.  He has served as supply for a number of parishes in Vermont, New Hampshire, Alabama, and Central New York.