While a name is not mentioned, and I don't intend to mention it here, there's only one potential candidate anywhere near Pasadena. If this is the guy, I've got to say he follows a pattern. While the first wave of ordinations in the OCSP was dominated by graduates of Nashotah House and Yale Divinity with impeccable Anglican credentials, more recently we've seen the likes of Frs Treco and Baaten, with desultory careers "all over the map", as Fr Baaten put it, and indeed, not coming in with groups or even coming from an active Anglican pastoral assignment. What problem are we trying to solve?
This gentleman served briefly as curate under David Moyer at Good Shepherd Rosemont but left that position prior to Moyer's removal there. He then moved to Central California (which makes Pasadena a pretty tough commute). He was, or is, a chaplain with the Air Force Reserves, though I'm not sure in what denomination. The on line biographical information I've been able to locate says he attended both Catholic and Lutheran seminaries; it's not completely clear if his ordination was in TEC or the ACA, although he hasn't had a record of consistent parish assignments in either.
UPDATE: Many thanks to my regular correspondent for doing a great deal of digging. The gentleman was ordained in 2006 in the ACC. At some later time, he was the priest of an APCK parish. As noted, he served as curate at Good Shepherd Rosemont, nominally a TEC parish, though by that time, David Moyer was an ACA priest. Clearly this gentleman has been all over the "continuing Anglican" map, though he doesn't seem to have lasted long anywhere.
He served briefly as a supply priest for Mrs Bush at St Mary of the Angels after the squatter group reopened the parish for "mass", which put him in the company of several other highly marginal clerics. (It's worth noting that Msgr Steenson appears to have given at least one priest the impression that saying "mass" for the Bush group would be looked upon favorably in his record, but in that case he seems to have reneged.) That this gentleman has been something of a wannabe on the fringes of the OCSP since before 2012 suggests he's our guy. It appears, though, that if his application was made during early waves, action had been deferred for quite some time -- yet having no potential assignment has seldom been an obstacle to ordinations in the OCSP.
That he attended both Catholic and Lutheran seminaries raises a potential problem, delict of schism. We know nothing about this other than the bare-bones reference in the information available on the web, but at minimum it suggests that, as with other recent ordinations, the guy has been "all over the map". But my regular correspondent suggests that friends in the right places can fix a great deal.
Even with the Fort Worth clique out of favor, it looks like Fr Bartus is still placed well enough to fix this. What problem are we trying to solve?
