List of General Theological Seminary people

This is a partial list of notable people associated with the General Theological Seminary, an Episcopal seminary in New York City.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Faculty and Staff

J. Neil Alexander (born 1954), professor of homiletics and liturgics; 9th Bishop of Atlanta
Reginald R. Belknap (1871–1959), treasurer, bursar, and registrar
Peter Carnley (born 1937), primate of Australia, visiting professor of systematic theology
F. J. Foakes-Jackson (1855–1941), church historian
Frank S. B. Gavin, ecumenist and historian
Benjamin I. Haight, professor of pastoral theology
Francis J. Hall (1857–1932), professor of dogmatic theology
Francis L. Hawks (1798–1866), church historian
John Henry Hobart (1775–1830), bishop of New York, founder, dean, pastoral theologian
Eugene Augustus Hoffman (1829–1902), dean, benefactor
Leonard Hodgson (1889–1969), theologian, church historian
David Hurd (born 1950), organist, composer
Alan Jones (born 1940), professor of ascetical theology
Frederick Joseph Kinsman (1868–1944), church historian
Lloyd A. Lewis (born 1947), adjunct professor of New Testament
Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), biblical scholar, donor of land for the seminary, author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
Benjamin T. Onderdonk (1791–1861), professor of nature, ministry and polity of the church, bishop of New York
Pierson Parker (1905–1995), New Testament scholar
W. Norman Pittenger (1905–1997), theologian
Cornelius L. Reid (1911–2008), voice teacher
Thomas Richey (1831-1905), alumnus and professor of church history
Charles Roper (1858–1940), theologian, metropolitan of Ontario
Alexander Schmemann (1921–1983), adjunct professor of liturgy
Samuel Seabury (1801–1872), biblical scholar
Niels Henry Sonne (1907–1944), rare books librarian and curator
Eugene Sutton (born 1954), adjunct professor of homiletics
Samuel H. Turner (1790–1861), Hebrew scholar
Gulian C. Verplanck (1786–1870), professor of evidences of revealed religion and moral science, attorney, U.S. representative
Julian Wachner (born 1969), professor of music
Philip Waggett (1862–1939), British Anglo-Catholic priest
Somerset Walpole (1854–1929), theologian, bishop of Edinburgh
J. Robert Wright (1936-2022), church historian

Alumni

James M. Adams, Jr. (born 1948), bishop of Western Kansas
J. Neil Alexander (born 1954), bishop of Atlanta
Kevin Bond Allen (born 1954), bishop of Cascadia
William Edmond Armitage (1830–1873), bishop of Wisconsin
David Ball (born 1926), bishop of Albany
Ellen Barrett (born 1946), Episcopal priest
Frederick L. Barry (1897–1960), bishop of Albany
Frederick H. Belden (1909-1979), Tenth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island.
Alan P. Bell (1932-2002), Kinsey Institute researcher
David Bird (born 1946), Rector, St. Andrew's Church, New Kensington, Pa., Grace Church, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and Dean, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (San Jose, California)
Richard Nelson Bolles (born 1927), priest, self-help author
Frederick Borsch (born 1935), bishop of Los Angeles
William Hampton Brady (1912–1996), bishop of Fond du Lac
Kenneth A. Bray (1895–1953), Episcopal priest, teacher, and coach
James Lloyd Breck (1818–1876), founder of Nashotah House
Benjamin Brewster (1860–1941), bishop of Western Colorado
James Brown (born 1932), bishop of Louisiana
John Henry Hobart Brown (1831–1888), first bishop of Fond du Lac
Alexander Burgess (1819-1901), first Bishop of Quincy
Spence Burton (1881–1966), bishop suffragan of Haiti, bishop of Nassau
Clement Moore Butler (1810–1890), Episcopal priest and Chaplain of the Senate
Arthur Carey (1822–1844), Episcopal priest
Thomas Casady (1881–1958), bishop of Oklahoma
Frank S. Cerveny (born 1933), bishop of Florida
Albert Chambers (1906–1993), bishop of Springfield
E. Otis Charles (born 1926), bishop of Utah
Leighton Coleman (1837–1907), bishop of Delaware
Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818–1896), bishop of Western New York
Roland de Corneille (born 1927), Canadian priest, member of Parliament
Marvin Dana (1867–1926), author and magazine editor
James DeKoven (1831–1879), Episcopal priest and educator
Morgan Dix (1827–1908), Episcopal priest, theologian, author
Robert Duncan, (born 1948), bishop of Pittsburgh; archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church in North America
Manton Eastburn (1801–1872), bishop of Massachusetts
Christopher Epting (born 1946), bishop of Iowa
John H. Esquirol (1900–1972), bishop of Connecticut
William Leopold Essex (1886–1959), bishop of Quincy
Thomas F. Gailor (1856–1935), bishop of Tennessee
Frederick R. Graves (1858–1940), missionary bishop of Shanghai
Campbell Gray (1879–1944) bishop of Northern Indiana
Frank T. Griswold (born 1937), bishop of Chicago, 25th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Francis Joseph Hall (1857–1933), theologian
Alexander Hamilton (1847–1928), Episcopal priest
Daniel W. Hardy (1930–2007), theologian
Joseph M. Harte, (1914-1999) bishop of Arizona
William Hatch (1875–1972), New Testament scholar
Marion J. Hatchett (1927–2009), liturgical scholar
Matthew Heyd, Episcopal priest
Edward Young Higbee (1810–1871), Episcopal priest and Chaplain of the Senate
Eugene Augustus Hoffman (1829–1902), Episcopal priest and benefactor
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820–1891), Episcopal priest, author of We Three Kings
George Hendric Houghton (1820–1897), Episcopal priest
Jack Iker (born 1949), bishop of Fort Worth
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas (born 1933), patriarch of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Church
Stephen H. Jecko (1940–2007), bishop of Florida
James L. Jelinek (born 1942), bishop of Minnesota
Arthur Whipple Jenks (1863–1922), theologian
Jim Kelsey (1952–2007), bishop of Northern Michigan
William Ingraham Kip (1811–1893), first bishop of California
David Buel Knickerbacker (1833–1894), bishop of Indiana
Cyrus F. Knight (1831–1891), bishop of Milwaukee
Alfred Lee (1807–1887), bishop of Delaware, 10th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Fritz Leiber (1910–1992), fantasy writer
Abiel Leonard (1848-1903), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Utah with Nevada Territory
Arthur C. Lichtenberger (1900–1968), bishop of Missouri, 21st presiding bishop
Harry S. Longley (1868–1944), bishop of Iowa
Theodore B. Lyman (1815–1893), bishop of North Carolina
Reginald Mallett (1893–1965), bishop of Northern Indiana
C. Shannon Mallory (born 1936), bishop of Botswana, bishop of El Camino Real
Santosh Marray (born 1957), bishop of Seychelles
Baselios Mar Thoma Mathews II (1915–2006), 89th Catholicos of the East
Jim McGreevey (born 1957), governor of New Jersey
James McMaster (1820–1886), Roman Catholic newspaper editor
Eric Menees, bishop of San Joaquin
Steven Andrew Miller (born 1957), bishop of Milwaukee
William Millsaps (born 1939), presiding bishop, Episcopal Missionary Church
Leonel Mitchell (1930–2012), liturgical scholar
Paul Moore, Jr. (1919–2003), bishop of New York
Frank Morales (born 1949), Episcopal priest and activist
Benjamin Wistar Morris (1819–1906), bishop of Oregon
Theodore N. Morrison (1850–1929), bishop of Iowa
Arthur Moulton (1873–1962), bishop of Utah
Marc Nikkel (1950–2000), priest, missionary to the Dinka
Frederick B. Northup (born 1945), priest, former Dean of St. Mark’s Cathedral, Seattle
William Odenheimer (1817–1879) bishop of New Jersey
G. Ashton Oldham (1877–1963), bishop of Albany
Hugh R. Page (b. 1956), Episcopal priest and scholar at Notre Dame University
Austin Pardue (1899–1981), bishop of Pittsburgh
Leighton Parks (1852–1938), Episcopal priest
Henry N. Parsley, Jr. (born 1948), bishop of Alabama
Samuel Penny (1808–1853), Episcopal priest
ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (1875–1942), Episcopal priest and Chaplain of the Senate
Norman Pittenger (1905–1997), theologian
Jeannette Piccard (1895–1981), high altitude balloonist, priest (one of the Philadelphia Eleven)
Alberto Ramento (1936–2006), ninth supreme bishop of the Philippine Independent Church
George Maxwell Randall (1810–1873), missionary bishop of Colorado
Ann Holmes Redding (born 1951), priest, convert to Islam
Francisco Reus-Froylan (1919–2008), bishop of Puerto Rico
Gene Robinson (born 1947), bishop of New Hampshire
Nelson Somerville Rulison (1842–1897), bishop of Central Pennsylvania
Frank Runyeon (born 1953), stage and screen actor
Robert C. Rusack (1926–1986), bishop of Los Angeles
Francis Huger Rutledge (1799–1866), bishop of Florida
Henry Y. Satterlee (1843–1908), bishop of Washington
John Scarborough (1831–1913), bishop of New Jersey
Alan Scarfe (born 1950), bishop of Iowa
Joseph Schereschewsky (1831–1906), missionary bishop of Shanghai
John-David Schofield (1938–2013), bishop of San Joaquin
Lorenzo Sears (1838–1916), historian and biographer
M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE (born 1945), bishop of Massachusetts
Herbert Shipman (1869–1930), bishop suffragan of New York
Sam Shoemaker (1893–1963), founder, Faith at Work
Frederick Herbert Sill (1874–1952), founder, headmaster of Kent School
Mark Sisk (born 1942), bishop of New York
Richard P. Smiraglia (born 1952), librarian and information scientist
Gordon V. Smith (1906–1997), bishop of Iowa
Franklin Spencer Spalding (1865–1914), missionary bishop of Utah
John Franklin Spalding (1828–1902), bishop of Colorado
Robert R. Spears, Jr. (1918–2008), bishop of Rochester
William L. Stevens (1932–1997), bishop of Fond du Lac
Joseph Wilson Sutton, Episcopal priest
Barry Swain (born 1959), Episcopal priest
Ethelbert Talbot (1848–1928), bishop of Bethlehem, 15th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Frederick W. Taylor (1853–1903), bishop of Quincy
Robert Terwilliger (1917–1991), bishop suffragan of Dallas
Andrew Yu-Yue Tsu (朱友渔, 1885–1986) assistant bishop of Hong Kong, general secretary of the Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui, "Bishop of the Burma Road"
Daniel S. Tuttle (1837–1923), bishop of Missouri, 13th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Ralph Ernest Urban, (1875–1935) suffragan bishop of New Jersey
Thomas Hubbard Vail (1821–1889), bishop of Kansas
George Roe Van De Water, major proponent of the compatibility of Freemasonry with Christianity
Vedder Van Dyck (1889–1960), bishop of Vermont
Kenneth Abbott Viall (1893–1974), provincial superior, SSJE, assistant bishop of Tokyo
Orris George Walker, (1942-2015), seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island
Clarence A. Walworth (1820–1900), Roman Catholic priest and writer
Edward Nason West (1909–1990), sub-dean, Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Ozi William Whitaker (1830–1911), bishop of Pennsylvania
Henry John Whitehouse (1803–1874), bishop of Illinois
William Rollinson Whittingham (1805–1879), bishop of Maryland
Frederick B. Williams (1939–2008), priest, social activist
John Williams (1817–1899), bishop of Connecticut, 11th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Frank E. Wilson (1885–1944), bishop of Eau Claire

References

"GTS Detailed History" Archived 2014-08-09 at the Wayback Machine The General Theological Seminary. Retrieved February 18, 2013.
"Project Canterbury: The Life of The Rev. James Lloyd Breck" Anglican History. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
"Rev. Jeannette Piccard dies at 86; Scientist Entered Seminary in '70" The New York Times. Retrieved August 5, 2011.
"Official Biography of Bishop Robinson" Diocese of New Hampshire. Retrieved August 5, 2011.

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