About Rev. Marie

The Rev. Marie A. Tatro was recently ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Long Island. In 2013 she graduated cum laude from The General Theological Seminary, and was awarded the J. Wilson Sutton Prize for the top senior thesis. She has a juris doctorate from C.U.N.Y. Law School, and a bachelor of arts cum laude from Amherst College. Before starting seminary, Marie worked as an attorney in non-profit organizations representing low-income New Yorkers. She also conducted trainings and served in several coalitions on a variety of matters such as HIV/AIDS policies, low-income tax issues, and tenants’ rights. Marie speaks conversational Spanish and learned to read biblical Greek while in seminary.

She served for two years as a seminarian at St. Stephen/St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. She is currently the curate at St. Gabriel's in Flatbush. Her home/sending parish is Grace Church – Brooklyn Heights.

Marie lives in Fort Greene, Brooklyn with her partner of 14 years, Maggie Faux, who is the Project Director of Legal Services NYC-Brooklyn, supervising the Brooklyn-wide programs. They have two living daughters, Ryan (11), and Chloe (3). They have two others daughters of blessed memory, Bronwen and Avery, whose ashes are interred at Grace Church.