Trinity Mobile calls the Rev. Mark Fitzhugh

Trinity Episcopal Church in Mobile has called the Rev. Mark Fitzhugh as its next rector

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The Rev. Mark Fitzhugh will become the 19th rector of Trinity Church, Mobile, on Sept. 1, 2025. Previously, he served from 2015 to 2025 as the rector of St. John’s of Lattingtown in Long Island, New York, and from 2010 to 2015 as the rector of St. Simon's on the Sound Episcopal Church in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. From 2003 to 2010, Fitzhugh served as assistant to the rector at Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was chaplain to the highly regarded Christ Church Men & Boys Choir program.

In 2001, he was ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama by the Rt. Rev. Henry N. Parsley, Jr and served two years as the rector of the Episcopal Church of the Messiah in Heflin, Alabama. He earned his Master of Divinity degree from The General Theological Seminary in New York. While at the seminary, his field placement experiences were with the Rev. Barbara Crafton at St. Clement's Church in Manhattan and the Rev. Bill Tully at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue in New York City.

Fitzhugh is a native of Mobile, Alabama, and graduated from the University of South Alabama (Mobile) in 1985. Following college, he was an assistant sports information director at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, from 1985 to 1994. Just prior to going to seminary, he worked with both the Epilepsy Foundation of North Alabama and the Alabama Early Intervention System while living in Birmingham.

On a personal note, Fitzhugh is the youngest of three sons, and their father, William Neale Fitzhugh, was a co-pilot during World War II, notably participating in Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo, Japan, on April 18, 1942. Additionally, his mother, Dot Fitzhugh, was a longtime member of Trinity and served on the Altar Guild for many years. 

Fitzhugh and his wife, Dr. Cheri Smith (who were married at Trinity Church), have two daughters, Emma and Ella.

To learn more about Trinity Episcopal Church, visit www.trinitymobile.org.