People
Mark Scarlata
Revd Dr Mark Scarlata is the Vicar-Chaplain of St Edward’s. He came to the church in 2016 after finishing his curacy in Cambridge. Prior to that, Mark had been a full-time pastor at a Congregational church where he lived and grew up in Connecticut (USA). He completed his theological studies at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (MDiv) and then went on to do a masters at Yale before moving to Cambridge to complete his PhD.
Mark is currently the lecturer in Old Testament and Biblical Theology at St. Mellitus College, London and has published several books on biblical studies. He lives in Cambridge with his wife, Bettina, and children, Nathaniel, Madeleine, and Annabelle. He is a keen cyclist and has climbed many of the Tour de France peaks but most often can be found on the flats of Cambridge. He is also a self-proclaimed dilettante when it comes to wine and enjoys curating special bottles for events at St. Edward’s.
Vicar-Chaplain
Matthias Grebe
Revd Dr Matthias Grebe is the Associate Vicar of St Edward’s. He is also a Lecturer in Systematic Theology at St Mellitus College, London. Prior to this, Matthias held a Senior Research Fellowship at the University of Bonn, Germany, where he worked on a project on theodicy, the suffering God, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. He is one of the editors of the T&T Clark Handbook on Suffering and the Problem of Evil (2023).
Matthias read Theology, Philosophy, and Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen, where he also later trained for a professional certificate in psychotherapy (in Viktor Frankl’s school of logotherapy). In Cambridge, Matthias trained for ordination in the Church of England and undertook doctoral work on Karl Barth under the supervision of Prof. David Ford at the Faculty of Divinity. His revised PhD thesis is published under Election, Atonement, and the Holy Spirit (2014). He is married to Victoria and they have three small children.
Associate Vicar
Peter Elliott
Peter is the Churchwarden at St Edward’s. He is a PhD candidate in music at Cambridge University, having previously been at King’s College London for his master’s degree and the University of Oxford for his bachelor’s.
Before embarking on graduate study, Peter worked as a guitar teacher in Northern Ireland for two years. He convenes the Scriptorium and also takes care of the church’s day-to-day admin. He is married to Sabrina and loves making music, drinking coffee, and exchanging ideas.
All initial enquiries about St Edward’s can be directed to Peter at: stedwardsassistant@gmail.com.
