{"id":17170,"date":"2024-05-08T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/?page_id=17170"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:56:09","slug":"venanzio-cortese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/?page_id=17170","title":{"rendered":"Venanzio Cortese"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"17170\" class=\"elementor elementor-17170\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b01e9b6 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b01e9b6\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2785da2\" data-id=\"2785da2\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7c2509d elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"7c2509d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Dyan-Bryson.png\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-07cb058 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"07cb058\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VenanzioCortese-e1778790389582-297x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-19202\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VenanzioCortese-e1778790389582-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/slechurch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/VenanzioCortese-e1778790389582.jpg 526w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2599aaa elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2599aaa\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-0ab1b78\" data-id=\"0ab1b78\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b0d8c8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"6b0d8c8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Vestry Class of 2029<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2945c77 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2945c77\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-2951d68\" data-id=\"2951d68\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8c2319 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8c2319\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span class=\"im\">Venanzio is 36 years old and lives in Bloomfield with his wife, Katharine, and two children, Temperance and Nathaniel. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2012 and Syracuse University College of Law in 2015. After serving as a law clerk to a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court, he practiced law as a civil litigator for 9 years and is now in-house counsel.<br \/><br \/><\/span>Venanzio was baptised and confirmed into the Byzantine Catholic Church in 1997. He was later received into the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States in 2017. He and his family attended St. Peter&#8217;s Morristown from 2016 to 2023, where he served on its Vestry, its Search Committee, and its Nominating Committee. He and his family joined the congregation of St. Luke&#8217;s in 2023. Since joining St. Luke&#8217;s, Venanzio has assisted in the Sunday School, helped start a Friday night family Bible Study, and served as chairman of a Discernment Committee.<br \/><br \/>Venanzio loves spending time with his wife and children, hiking, reading history and theology, watching and re-watching Frasier, Mystery Science Theater 3000, and Roger Moore James Bond films, and trying different scotch whiskies.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vestry Class of 2029 Venanzio is 36 years old and lives in Bloomfield with his wife, Katharine, and two children, Temperance and Nathaniel. He graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 2012 and Syracuse University College of Law in 2015. 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