Rev. Rich Sanders

Founder of Online Home Church & Episcopal Priest in Atlanta, GA

Rich has served several churches in the Diocese of Atlanta, including St. Jude’s Church in Marietta. Most recently, he has served on the staff at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Roswell. He earned his Masters in Divinity from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University in 2015.

Rich is a bi-vocational priest, so he serves in ministry and in business. As President of Southern Health Lawyers, LLC, Rich is an attorney representing a variety of healthcare providers. He has been named annually to The Best Lawyers in America- Healthcare since 2011, and he is a past president of the Georgia Academy of Healthcare Attorneys. After graduating from Duke University in 1992 with a double-major in political science and history, Rich earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Emory University School of Law in 1996. He currently serves on the adjunct faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and teaches courses in healthcare law, and he has been awarded Professor of the Year. Rich is a former intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, where he worked with an Atlanta-based unit supporting the U.S. Sixth Fleet in Naples, Italy.

Rich is the founder of the charitable organization St. Michael’s Mission, Inc., which is a ministry organized to serve veterans of the armed services, especially Atlanta’s population of homeless veterans. He and his wife Rebekah live in Buckhead and have three children: Jay (2000), Will (2002) and Caroline (2005). They are members of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, where Rich and Rebekah met in 1996.