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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. 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 * Fre ...
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General Theological Seminary
The General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church (GTS) is an Episcopal seminary in New York City. Founded in 1817, GTS is the oldest seminary of the Episcopal Church and the longest continuously operating Seminary in the Anglican Communion. The seminary was chartered by an act of the Episcopal Church's General Convention and its name was chosen to reflect its founders' vision that it be a seminary to serve the whole Church. In 2022 the Seminary entered into a formal affiliation with Virginia Theological Seminary, whereby the two separate institutions share a common leadership structure. History Founding In May 1817 General Convention, the governing body of the Episcopal Church, met in New York City and passed two resolutions: first, to found a general Episcopal seminary to be supported by the whole church; second, that it be located in New York City. This was emended in 1820 to remove the school to New Haven, Connecticut, but in 1821 the will of Trinity Chur ...
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Lloyd A
Lloyd, Lloyd's, or Lloyds may refer to: People * Lloyd (name), a variation of the Welsh word ' or ', which means "grey" or "brown" ** List of people with given name Lloyd ** List of people with surname Lloyd * Lloyd (singer) (born 1986), American singer Places United States * Lloyd, Florida * Lloyd, Kentucky * Lloyd, Montana * Lloyd, New York * Lloyd, Ohio * Lloyds, Alabama * Lloyds, Maryland * Lloyds, Virginia Elsewhere * Lloydminster, or "Lloyd", straddling the provincial border between Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada Companies and businesses Derived from Lloyd's Coffee House *Lloyd's Coffee House, a London meeting place for merchants and shipowners between about 1688 and 1774 * Lloyd's of London, a British insurance market ** ''Lloyd's of London'' (film), a 1936 film about the insurance market ** Lloyd's building, its headquarters ** Lloyd's Agency Network * ''Lloyd's List'', a website and 275-year-old daily newspaper on shipping and global trade ** '' Lloyd's Lis ...
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Samuel H
Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transition from the biblical judges to the United Kingdom of Israel under Saul, and again in the monarchy's transition from Saul to David. He is venerated as a prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In addition to his role in the Hebrew scriptures, Samuel is mentioned in Jewish rabbinical literature, in the Christian New Testament, and in the second chapter of the Quran (although Islamic texts do not mention him by name). He is also treated in the fifth through seventh books of ''Antiquities of the Jews'', written by the Jewish scholar Josephus in the first century. He is first called "the Seer" in 1 Samuel 9:9. Biblical account Family Samuel's mother was Hannah and his father was Elkanah. Elkanah lived at Ramathaim in the district of Zuph. His ...
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Eugene Sutton
Eugene Taylor Sutton (born January 9, 1954) is the 14th and current Episcopal Bishop of Maryland. Early life and education Sutton grew up in Washington, DC, as a Baptist. He graduated from Hope College in Holland, Michigan, in 1976 and earned a Master of Divinity degree from Western Theological Seminary in the same city and was ordained as a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America. Sutton later continued his graduate studies at the Princeton Theological Seminary. After a few years, he joined the Episcopal Church and completed his Anglican ministry training at the Sewanee: The University of the South School of Theology in 1993. Ministry As well as serving parishes in New Jersey and Washington, DC, Sutton also taught at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, and the General Theological Seminary. Episcopate A convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland held at St James Episcopal Church (Baltimore, Maryland) ...
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Niels Henry Sonne
Niels Henry Sonne (1907–1994) was a noted librarian, a rare book curator, and expert on the Gutenberg Bible. A native of New York City, he received his bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1930, and his doctorate in 1939. ''Liberal Kentucky'', originally written as Sonne's Ph.D. thesis, was published by Columbia University Press in 1939, and reprinted by the University Press of Kentucky in 1968. The book deals with the development of liberal thought in Kentucky and relates particularly to the growth of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Sonne was employed for most of his career as a rare book librarian at the General Theological Seminary in New York City. Gutenberg Bible Sonne was an expert on the Gutenberg Bible's history and provenance. "A specialist on the Gutenberg Bible, Dr. iels H. Sonneretired as the seminary's librarian in 1976 after 26 years." A copy held by the General Theological Seminary was studied, and found to have a forged page. An anonymo ...
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Samuel Seabury (1801–1872)
Samuel Seabury (1801–1872) was an American Protestant Episcopal clergyman, grandson of Bishop Samuel Seabury. He was born at New London, Conn., was ordained priest in the Protestant Episcopal church (1828), was editor of '' The Churchman'' (1833–1849), rector of the Church of the Annunciation in New York City (1838–1868), and professor of biblical learning in the General Theological Seminary (1862–1872). He published: *''The Continuity of the Church of England in the Sixteenth Century'' (1853) *''Supremacy and Obligation of Conscience'' (1860) *''American Slavery Justified'' (1861) *''The Theory and Use of the Church Calendar'' (1872) *''Discourses on the Holy Spirit'' (edited by his son, with memoir, 1874) See also *William Jones Seabury William Jones Seabury (November 19, 1837 – August 30, 1916) was an American Episcopal priest, canon lawyer, and author. He was the son of Samuel Seabury (1801–1872) and great-grandson of Bishop Samuel Seabury. William J ...
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Alexander Schmemann
Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Шме́ман, ''Aleksandr Dmitrievich Šmeman''; 13 September 1921 – 13 December 1983) was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author who had most of his career in the United States. Born in Estonia to émigrés from the Russian Revolution, he grew up primarily in France, where there was a large émigré community in Paris. After being educated there in both Russian and French schools and universities, from 1946 to 1951 he taught in Paris. That year he immigrated with his family to New York City to teach at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary. In 1962 he was selected as dean of the Seminary, serving in this position until his death. For 30 years, his sermons in Russian were broadcast by Radio Liberty into the Soviet Union, where they were influential as a voice from beyond the Iron Curtain. Schmemann was among the leaders in forming the Orthodox Church in America as an ...
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Ecclesiastical Province Of Ontario
The Ecclesiastical Province of Ontario is one of four ecclesiastical provinces in the Anglican Church of Canada. It was established in 1912 out of six dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Canada located in the civil province of Ontario, and the Diocese of Moosonee from the Ecclesiastical Province of Rupert's Land. Overview The seven dioceses are: * '' Algoma'' (Ontario), * '' Huron'' (Ontario), * ''Moosonee'' (Ontario and part of northern Quebec on the coast of James Bay), * '' Niagara'' (Ontario), * ''Ontario'' (Ontario), * ''Ottawa'' (Ontario and a portion of southwestern Quebec), and * ''Toronto'' (Ontario). Provinces of the Anglican Church of Canada are headed by a Metropolitan, who is elected from among the province's diocesan bishops. This bishop then becomes Archbishop of his or her diocese and Metropolitan of the province. Since 2014, the Metropolitan of Ontario also becomes '' ex officio'' the diocesan Bishop of Moosonee. The current Metropolitan of the Provi ...
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Charles Roper
John Charles Roper (1858 – 26 January 1940) was an Anglican bishop in the Anglo-Catholicism, Anglo-Catholic tradition in the first half of the 20th century. Biography Roper was educated at Keble College, Oxford. Ordained in 1882, he began his ministry with a Curate, curacy at Herstmonceux and was then as chaplain of Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1886, he was appointed Professor of Divinity (academic discipline), Divinity at Trinity College, Toronto and also served as parish priest of St Thomas's Toronto. He was then Professor of Theology at the General Theological Seminary, New York City In 1912 he became the third Anglican Diocese of British Columbia, Bishop of British Columbia and was Translation (ecclesiastical), translated to be the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, Bishop of Ottawa three years later, serving for 24 years - the last six as the Metropolitan of Ontario.''Ecclesiastical News New Canadian Archbishop'' The Times Friday, Jan 27, 1933; pg. 15; Issue 46353; col E Refer ...
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Thomas Richey
Thomas Richey (November 1, 1831 — June 3, 1905) was a prominent Irish-American Anglo-Catholic priest, professor, and author in the Episcopal Church. He was born in Newry, County Down, in Ireland and had settled in Pittsburgh by 1847, following his graduation at 16 from Queen's College, Belfast. Richey was a tutor at St. James College, Hagerstown, Maryland under John Barrett Kerfoot from 1848-1851. He was graduated from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in 1854 and ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Horatio Potter in 1855. Ecclesiastical career From 1854 to 1858, Richey was rector of St. Luke's, Catskill, an important early American Tractarian parish center. He was then called to the rectorship of Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore, where he served from 1858 to 1862. Between 1864 and 1869, he was the second dean of St. Stephen's College, Annandale on Hudson, now known as Bard College, and from 1863 to 1867 as the rector of Saint James Church, Fordham, in the ...
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Cornelius L
Cornelius may refer to: People * Cornelius (name), Roman family name and a masculine given name * Pope Cornelius, pope from AD 251 to 253 * St. Cornelius (other), multiple saints * Cornelius (musician), stage name of Keigo Oyamada * Metropolitan Cornelius (other), several people * Cornelius the Centurion, Roman centurion considered by Christians to be the first Gentile to convert to the Christian faith Places in the United States * Cornelius, Indiana * Cornelius, Kentucky * Cornelius, North Carolina * Cornelius, Oregon Other uses * Cornelius keg, a metal container originally used by the soft drink industry * ''Adam E. Cornelius'' (ship, 1973), a lake freighter built for the American Steamship Company * ''Cornelius'', a play by John Boynton Priestley See also * * * Cornelius House (other) * Cornelia (other) * Corneliu (other) Corneliu is a Romanian given name, derived from Latin ''Cornelius (name), Cornelius''. Corneliu ...
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Pierson Parker
Pierson Parker (May 27, 1905 – December 13, 1995) was the son of Alvin Pierson and Susie Estelle (née Williams) Parker. He was professor of New Testament at the General Theological Seminary during the 1960s. Pierson was best known for his work on the origins and priority of the Gospels. After Morton Smith had published his two books on the Secret Gospel of Mark, Pierson published a somewhat critical review in The New York Times, wondering whether the document was “an early Christian cover-up” and saying that the passages “read not like Mark’s work but like a late and not wholly successful imitation” made before the time of Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and .... Pierson was also involved in the Today's English Version 1976.Good news in ...
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