Clergy and Staff

  • The Rev. Dr. Paul Kolbet

    The Rev. Dr. Paul Kolbet joined St. Peter’s September 2024. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1996 and has since served several congregations in the Dioceses of Northern Indiana and Massachusetts

    Prior to coming to St. Peter’s, he was interim rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brookline, Massachusetts.

     He studied for the priesthood at Yale Divinity School and then went on to earn a Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame, Boston College, and Yale Divinity School. He is a frequent conference speaker, the author of Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Revising a Classical Ideal and co-editor of the Harp of Prophecy: Early Christian Interpretation of the Psalms. He has also published articles on such topics early Christian spiritual practices, psychology, and pastoral strategies. He and his wife, Amy, live in Wellesley. They have one adult daughter, Chloe.

    To contact Rev. Paul Kolbet:

    Church Office: 781-891-3200

    Email: paul@stpetersweston.org

  • Robert DeRegis

    Church music has been part of Bobby DeRegis’ life from a very early age when he was recruited as a boy soprano at St. John the Evangelist Church in Syracuse, NY. He loved to sing, but watching the organist at work was his inspiration to study the instrument. Feeling the bass notes resonate through the floor of the choir and seeing the huge gold pipes gleaming overhead was the best experience of the service. He began to formally study organ in high school with David Enos, a cradle Episcopalian whose training began in St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral in Syracuse. Bobby is an alumnus of Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Arts. During his graduate studies at Boston University, Bobby served in several churches in the greater Boston area including Catholic, Christian Science, Congregational, Presbyterian ,and Unitarian/Universalist denominations. A member of the American Guild of Organists, he recently served on the Boston Chapter’s Executive Committee. He served at the Congregational Church of Needham as music director and organist for eight years, and then served as interim music director at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain, and as substitute organist at Grace Episcopal Church in Newton Corner. Bobby feels quite at home in the Episcopal church, and is looking forward to serving St. Peter’s during this time of transition. Living in Everett and working in Lexington, he enjoys spending many late evenings practicing the organ. If you should see lights on in the church very late, don’t worry — most likely it is just Bobby!

    To contact Robert DeRegis:

    Church Office: 781-891-3200

    Email: drderegis@verizon.net

  • Emily Linthicum

    Emily joined the St. Peter’s community as the parish administrator in May 2022. Originally from Maryland, she moved to the Boston area for graduate school in Theology at Boston College and after ten years, has become a New Englander at heart. Emily was a middle and high school Theology teacher for six years and is currently a Master in Social Work student at Boston University. She was received into the Episcopal Church in 2022 and is very happy to have found a home in such a loving, welcoming faith community. In her free time, you are likely to find her at a local coffee-shop with a book in hand as well as being an active member in her home parish through their Vestry and Altar Guild.

    To contact Emily Linthicum:

    Church Office: 781-891-3200

    Email: office@stpetersweston.org