Vicar for Finance records

The vicar for finance or the chief financial officer (CFO) is by canonical appointment the principal advisor to the bishop in matters of finance in collaboration with the finance council. The vicar for finance or the CFO, together with the finance council, oversees the budget, temporal goods, income, and expenses of the diocese. Monsignor Roy Aiken served as the Diocese of Charleston vicar for finance from 1989-1992. Monsignor Roy Aiken, a Roman Catholic priest, was born November 28, 1918, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Newman Aiken and Ellie Pressley Aiken. He attended Greenville High School, and graduated from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama. He received his theological degree from St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland, and was ordained a priest in 1946 by Emmet M. Walsh, bishop of Charleston, at St. Francis de Sales Church in New York. Monsignor Aiken was assigned to the Church of Saint Peter in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1946 where he served until 1950, when he became vice chancellor of the Diocese of Charleston. He then served as the first pastor of the Church of Saint Anthony in Walterboro from 1952 until 1967, and the first pastor of the Church of Saint Mary in Hampton from 1955 through 1967. Other pastorates held by Monsignor Aiken include Summerville's Saint John Church, the Church of Saint Mary in Aiken, and the Saint Peter's Catholic Church in Columbia. He also served on the faculty of Cardinal Newman High School from 1980 through 1988, and as an associate at Our Lady of the Hills Catholic Church in Columbia from 1987 through 1990. He was a member of the board of directors of the North American Liturgical Conference, vicar for finance of the Diocese of Charleston, president of the Summerville Chamber of Commerce, and chairman of the Heart Fund and Cancer Drive in Charleston. Aiken died July 4, 2006, at Still Hopes Episcopal Home.

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