Clergy & Staff

The Very Reverend Dane Boston

Dean of Trinity Cathedral

The Very Reverend Dane E. Boston became the sixth Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral on January 1, 2021. Ordained in 2012, Dane previously served as Curate of Christ Church, Greenwich, Connecticut, Canon for Christian Formation here at Trinity, and Rector of Christ Church in Cooperstown, New York. A graduate of Washington and Lee University, Yale Divinity School, and Berkeley Divinity School, Dane is passionately committed to the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ through the rich tradition of Anglican faith and worship.

Dane is married to Debby, an attorney by training, and they are blessed with two daughters and two sons. In their (scant) free time, Debby and Dane enjoy reading, hiking, and cooking. The Bostons are thrilled to be back in Columbia, and Dane is overjoyed to serve the people of Trinity once again.

The Reverend Canon Mia C. McDowell

Canon Catechist

Canon Mia C. McDowell is an Episcopal priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. She currently serves on staff at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral as Canon Catechist. She oversees the ministry of Christian Formation and shares fully in the sacramental and missional life of the congregation at the cathedral. She served as Vicar at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Newberry, SC from 2019 until 2022. During her curacy after seminary, she served in Spartanburg, SC, as Assistant to the Rector at St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, and as Curate of the Church of the Epiphany.

Canon McDowell was ordained to the priesthood on January, 14, 2016. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Greenville, SC, her second church home, later became her sending parish. Mia earned a Masters of Divinity from The School of Theology at The University of the South, Sewanee, graduating in May of 2015. She currently serves in the diocese on the Board of Examining Chaplains, has previously served on the Bishop’s Nominating Committee, and as diocesan Chaplain for the The Order of the Daughters of the King. She has served as a clergy deputy to the 80th General Convention in 2022 in Baltimore Maryland.

Prior to entering discernment for Holy Orders, She was employed as a Pharmacy Technician, and as an Organist/Choirmaster for various churches in the Upstate. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Music, Organ, from Anderson College, now Anderson University, in 2002. Mia, is a native of Greenville, SC daughter to Linda and Johnny Lee, sister to Corky, and Aunt to Dravon, Carl, and Steven, and Great -aunt to Calyx. She was married to the late Rev. James W. McDowell for eight years.

She and her dog, Sonny, a terrier mix, will live on Columbia's west-side. Mia enjoys cooking, antiquing, dancing, traveling, and great food with great friends.