Marta Illueca
Associate Rector
The Rev. Dr. Marta Illueca is a native New Yorker with a bi-vocational spin to her ministries within the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. A high school graduate from Marymount School of New York, Marta obtained a medical degree with honors from the University of Panamá’s School of Medicine and specialized in Pediatric Gastroenterology at Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, where she joined their faculty until 2003. She then worked for the pharmaceutical industry in Delaware until 2014. Marta is a graduate from Berkeley Divinity School, the Episcopal Seminary at Yale University and was ordained to the priesthood in 2019. By supplementing her theological training with a degree in Pain Medicine from Tufts Medical School, she is developing innovative programs for physicians and clergy on the spiritual dimensions of healing. Marta is the Clergy Medical Liaison for the Episcopal Church in Delaware and the leader of the diocesan Pain and Prayer Project. She is the co-creator of a scientifically validated Pain-Related PRAYER Scale (PPRAYERS) in collaboration with major academic centers and the lead for the diocesan Pain and Prayer Project. An active, bilingual medical educator, her work is expanding into the Hispanic/Latino space in the U.S. and Latin America. Rev. Marta’s ministry focus at Trinity Episcopal Church is serving the Hispanic/Latino community, a vibrant yet peaceful and apolitical international congregation. Marta began her ministry at Trinity Parish in February 2023 and shares her time between pastoral work at Trinity and academic research on spirituality and health.