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THIS UNDATED photo shows All Saints Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane on Orr’s Island. The chapel will begin its 114th summer season on June 1.
THIS UNDATED photo shows All Saints Chapel, located at 9 Cooper Lane on Orr’s Island. The chapel will begin its 114th summer season on June 1.
HARPSWELL — On Sunday, June 1, the Rev. Dr. H. Roy Partridge Jr. will conduct the service of Holy Eucharist as All Saints Chapel opens for its 114th season of summer worship.

The chapel is located at 9 Cooper Lane, Orr’s Island. The service begins at 9 a.m.

Episcopal services began on Orr’s Island in 1894 and were held in private homes, and even an ice cream parlor, until 1900 when the current chapel was consecrated. The following year side aisles were added. Through the years, many memorials in the chapel have been given by parishioners themselves or their families. Many descendants of the founders continue to worship regularly at All Saints today.

On the occasion of its 100th anniversary in 2000, now-retired Episcopal Bishop Chilton Knudsen consecrated All Saints Memorial Garden, a woodland area that is a place of tranquil beauty set aside and sanctified by prayer and blessing as a setting for flowers and plants appropriate to the season and location as well as cremains of those who wish to be buried there.

The Rev. Partridge is special assistant to the president for multicultural affairs and a visiting faculty member at Bowdoin College. Roy served as rector for eight years at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Windham. More recently he serves monthly as a supply priest at Trinity in Portland and frequently at St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Scarborough.

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A graduate from Oberlin College, he holds multiple degrees from the University of Michigan and Harvard University.

He is a licensed clinical social worker with a small private practice. He serves on the board of directors for the Elmina B. Sewall Foundation and the Maine Indian Tribal State Commission and has served as the president of the board of the Maine Council of Churches.

Partridge and his wife of 35 years, Susan, have three children (Damani, Mara, and Juliana) and one grandchild (Jasmine).


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