About Our Clergy

Canon Steven Dart

About Canon Steven Dart: Born and brought up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He went on two travel abroad programs, to Sintra, Portugal in 1982 and Poitiers, France in 1985. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and received a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology.

After his conversion to Christ in his senior year of college, he entered the seminary at St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Theology and was formed for the priesthood. While in seminary he married Chrissy and they moved to Arizona in 1990. They are the parents of three daughters whom they homeschooled over a period of nineteen years.

Canon Dart assisted with the formation of St. Nicholas Anglican Church in Scottsdale and served that parish from 1990 to 2001. He helped in the formation of St. George’s Anglican Church in Las Vegas, Nevada, and ministered to that parish from 1992 to 1997. He is the founding Rector of the Anglican Church of the Atonement, Fountain Hills, Arizona serving that parish from 1998 to 2004.

Canon Dart has been active in the Anglican Province of Christ the King and directed youth summer camps, led retreats for the laity and clergy, and chaired the seminary alumni committee. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Diocese of the Southwestern States and on its Standing Committee and Board of Examining Chaplains.

Canon Dart has participated in various organizations in the Desert Foothills Community. He was a co-founder of the Foothills Caring Corps in 1999 and has enjoyed multiple terms on its Board of Directors acting as President from 2015 to 2016; and currently serves as a director. He joined the Kiwanis Club of Carefree in 1997 and toiled four years on the Board of Directors and as President from 2018 to 2019; he is currently club treasurer. He is the founding priest of Christ Anglican Church, Carefree, Arizona, and the Rector of the Parish since 1997.

Deacon Ory Schultheis

Deacon Ory Schultheis was born In Jonesboro, Arkansas and raised in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. He attended Southern Nazarene University and earned a Bachelor’s of Science in Theology & Pastoral Ministry. After college, he attended Nazarene Theological Seminary and earned a Master’s of Divinity. He has also attended St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Theological College.

Deacon Schultheis joined the Anglican Province of Christ the King in 2020 shortly after the pandemic started, attending Church of the Holy Cross in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was ordained to the deaconate in 2024.

Deacon Schultheis is married to Emma Schultheis, who is a pediatric nurse and talented musician. They are blessed with two children, Elowyn and Glaphré.