Meet Rev. Marek Zabriskie
Rector, Christ Church Greenwich
203.869.6600 x12 | mzabriskie@christchurchgreenwich.org
Marek has a passion for people and growing a church. He has served as Rector of Christ Church since November of 2018. He oversees our staff, worship, and programing and works closely with the Vestry to oversee all of our operations.
He loves helping people on their spiritual journey and getting to know people individually, building community and creating a church that makes a major impact on people’s lives.
He has a deep love for Scripture. In 2011, he founded the Center for Biblical Studies (www.thecenterforbiblicalstudies.org) to share The Bible Challenge, a ministry that he created to help individuals read through the entire Bible or the New Testament, Proverbs, and Psalms in a year. Over a million people in more than 50 countries have participated.
He has edited 11 books in The Bible Challenge series published by Forward Movement and available in the Dogwood Bookstore at Christ Church. He has also written Doing the Bible Better: Unleashing the Bible for Transformation in the Episcopal Church published by Church Publishing Group.
He has preached in London, Canterbury, Madrid, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Newport, Rhode Island; Nantucket, Darien, Kansas City, Miami, San Diego, Malibu, Concord, New Hampshire, Tanzania, Kenya, Cuba, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic. He has been the featured preacher several times for Day 1 Radio, where his sermons were broadcast on over 200 radio stations across the United States.
He previously served as the Rector of St. Thomas’ Church in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, Associate Rector at St. James’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia, and Assistant to the Rector at St. George’s Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He began his career as a newspaper reporter for The Nashville Banner and as a stringer for Time magazine. He is a graduate of Emory University and the Yale Divinity School. He loves languages and speaks Spanish, French, and Italian and has studied Swahili, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. His wife, Mims, is an attorney. They have three grown daughters. He enjoys travel, tennis, swimming, reading, fly-fishing, hiking across Europe, and gardening.