Anna Frank resigns from Episcopal Diocese

From Alaska-

Rev. Anna Frank sparkled Friday night as hundreds of family members and friends surrounded her for her retirement party. Frank wore a glittering purple shirt, a red skirt and beaded Athabascan moccasins to the occasion where attendees honored her work with the Episcopal Diocese of Alaska.

Members of the Diocese organized a party for Frank’s retirement, which was technically a resignation. As Bishop Mark Lattime said, priests can’t retire.

“Once a priest, always a priest,” he said.

Frank applied for postulancy (a step before becoming ordained as a deacon) with the diocese in September 1973. She was 34 years old, had four children and had been married to Richard Frank for about half of her life. In her application, she wrote to the Diocese that she was led to the ministry to serve Alaska Natives. She was ordained as a deacon in March 1974. Almost 10 years later, in 1983, she was ordained as a priest.

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