Father R. Scott Hurd serves as vicar general for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter. A priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, he is former executive director of the Archdiocesan Office of the Permanent Diaconate, and has also served in the Archdiocesan Office for Religious Education. Hurd began his professional ministry as an Episcopal priest, entered the Catholic Church in 1996, and was ordained a Catholic priest four years later. He and his wife live with their three school-aged children in Alexandria, Virginia. Hurd’s first book, Forgiveness: A Catholic Approach, was published in 2011.
