DUKE CENTER – After years of plying his trade as a pilot, the
Rev. G. Leo Angevine of Prentisvale has received a new higher
calling.

On Sunday, Angevine will be ordained as an Episcopalian priest
at the Church of the Ascension in Bradford in a ceremony conducted
by the Right Rev. Robert D. Rowley Jr., bishop of the Diocese of
Northwestern Pennsylvania officiating.

Angevine has already been ordained a deacon in the Episcopal
Church six months ago, and was assigned to the ministry group
BECOMM – the Bi-County Community Episcopalian Ministry.

The ministry includes Eldred, Mount Jewett, Kane, Port Allegany,
Emporium and Smethport.

In March of 2000, Angevine retired from United Airlines after
more than 34 years as a pilot.

His years from pilot to a priest were filled with many ups and
downs. Shortly after his retirement, Angevine heard a priest at the
Bradford Church of the Ascension tell his congregation that there
was a shortage of ministers.

At that point, Angevine felt a call that God wanted him to go
into the ministry.

“We prayed about it and talked to the bishop,” Angevine
said.

And so, Angevine began his studies at the Titusville Diocesan
School for Ministry, which is sponsored by the Northwestern
Pennsylvania Episcopalian Diocese.

After having just finished his first semester at the school in
November 2000, Angevine got the type of news everyone dreads to
hear – he was suffering from cancer.

Angevine said the cancer began in his right tonsil and became
matasticized to the lymph node. Following radical surgery, Angevine
had 33 radiation treatments and “All my original classmates (at the
school) graduated a year before me. I couldn’t keep up because the
anesthesia

affected my memory.”

He receives his cancer treatments at Roswell Park Cancer
Institute of Buffalo, N.Y., and returned to his classes. A recent
check-up assured him that everything was fine.

There was a time when Angevine sang in the tenor section of the
choir and also presented solos. Since his throat surgery, he only
sings with the congregation.

Through it all, the former pilot has been a member of the Otto
Township board of supervisors and is a former member of the
Bradford Regional Airport Authority. Angevine did have to miss some
supervisors

meetings, but is still on the board today and has several years
left on his term.

In addition, Angevine still owns his own airplane, an American
Champion Scout, which he flies on occasion; sometimes his wife,
Ade, even goes up with him. Ade Angevine is an organist at the
Church of the Ascension.

Angevine said his wife “is very supportive of everything” he’s
ever done, adding they enjoy their country home along with four
horses, a

large Bernese Swiss Mountain dog, two cats and five kittens.