 He was succeeded by Robert Duncan.Hathaway retired in 1997 and joined the staff of St. John's Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, in the Episcopal Diocese of Florida, serving as bishop until 2006 when the church split and two thirds started a new diocese that would later join the Anglican Church of North America in 2009.In 2007, Hathaway relocated to Beaufort, South Carolina, joining the staff of the Parish Church of St. Helena in the Diocese of South Carolina, where he still remains after the diocese's withdrawal from the Episcopal Church, in 2012.