List of Episcopal Divinity School people

This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Episcopal Divinity School, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and with its predecessors, the Episcopal Theological School and the Philadelphia Divinity School.



Faculty

 * Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1841–1908), church historian
 * Nathan D. Baxter (born 1948), bishop of Central Pennsylvania
 * Robert Avon Bennett (born 1933), Old Testament scholar, first African-American faculty member
 * Charles Bennison (born 1943), bishop of Pennsylvania
 * John Everitt Booty (1925-2013), dean of the School of Theology, University of the South
 * Katie Geneva Cannon (born 1949), feminist theologian
 * Otis Charles (1926-2013), dean, bishop of Utah
 * Steven Charleston (born 1949), dean, bishop of Alaska
 * John B. Coburn (1925–2006), dean, bishop of Massachusetts
 * Frederick William Dillistone (1903–1993), theologian, dean of Liverpool
 * Angus Dun (1892–1971), dean, bishop of Washington
 * Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938), feminist biblical scholar
 * Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991), founder of situational ethics
 * John Fulton (priest), professor of canon law
 * Ezra Palmer Gould (1841–1900), New Testament scholar (Philadelphia Divinity School)
 * George Zabriskie Gray (1837–1889), dean
 * Henry R. Gummey, liturgist
 * Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr. (1924-2017), dean, Old Testament scholar
 * Carter Heyward (born 1945), feminist theologian and one of the Philadelphia Eleven
 * Suzanne R. Hiatt (1936–2002), professor of homiletics, pastoral theologian, and one of the Philadelphia Eleven
 * Lloyd G. Patterson (1924–1999), patristics scholar
 * John Punnett Peters (1852–1921), Hebrew scholar (Philadelphia Divinity School)
 * James Thayer Addison (1887-1953) Class of 1913, Vice President of National Council of the Episcopal Church
 * Kwok Pui Lon, professor of constructive, postmodern, & feminist theologies
 * Joan M. Martin, professor womanist & Christian social Ethics
 * Angela Bauer-Levesque, Vice President for Academic Affairs/Academic Dean, feminist professor Hebrew Bible
 * Lawrence Wills, professor of Hebrew Bible & New Testament
 * Gale Yee, professor of Hebrew Bible
 * William Kondrath, professor of Pastoral Theology
 * Suzanne Ehly, faculty in voice, body, culture & leadership
 * Susie Snyder, professor of Contemporary Theology, Sociology & Religion
 * Patrick Cheng, professor of queer theology
 * Katherine Hancock Ragsdale (born 1959), dean and president
 * Edward Rodman, professor of Pastoral Theology
 * Charles W. F. Smith (1905–1993), New Testament scholar
 * Owen C. Thomas (1922-2015), professor of philosophy of religion, and systematic theology.
 * Fredrica Harris Thompsett, Academic Dean, professor of History
 * Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, Academic Dean, professor of Pastoral Theology

Alumni

 * George Councell (born 1949), bishop of New Jersey
 * Peter Elliott (born 1954), dean, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
 * Philip Gambone (born 1948), author
 * Mary Douglas Glasspool (born 1954), suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
 * Anna Greenwood-Lee, bishop of British Columbia
 * John Guernsey (born 1953), bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic
 * James A. Kowalski (born 1951), dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
 * Bruce Lawrence (born 1941), scholar of religions
 * Jeffrey Mello, bishop of (Connecticut)
 * Robert Williams (1955–1992), gay priest

Episcopal Theological School

 * Daniel Dulany Addison (1863–1936), priest, author
 * John Melville Burgess (1909–2003), bishop of Massachusetts and the first African American to head an Episcopal diocese.
 * William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918), Canadian poet
 * Jonathan Daniels (1939–1965), civil rights martyr (died before graduation)
 * Bob Franke (born 1947), singer-songwriter (left to pursue a musical career)
 * Percy Stickney Grant (1860–1927), Christian socialist
 * Alden Moinet Hathaway (born 1933), bishop of Pittsburgh
 * Henry Hobson (1891–1983), bishop of Southern Ohio
 * Arthur Lichtenberger (1900–1968), twenty-first presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * Arthur Moulton (1873–1962), bishop of Utah
 * Endicott Peabody (1857–1944), priest, founder of Groton School
 * William D. Persell (born 1943), bishop of Chicago, assisting bishop of Ohio
 * James De Wolf Perry (1871–1947), eighteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * George F. Regas (born 1930), priest, activist
 * Ruby Sales (born 1948), social activist
 * Peter Selby (born 1941), bishop of Worcester
 * Henry Knox Sherrill (1890–1980), twentieth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
 * Anson Phelps Stokes (1905–1986), bishop of Massachusetts
 * William B. Spofford (1921-2013), bishop of Eastern Oregon, assistant bishop of Washington
 * Logan Herbert Roots (1870–1945), bishop of Hankow
 * William Greenough Thayer (1863–1934), priest, educator, headmaster of St. Mark's School
 * Paul Van Buren (1924–1998), "Death of God" theologian
 * Geralyn Wolf (born 1947), bishop of Rhode Island
 * Mikael Mogren (born 1969), bishop of Västerås

Philadelphia Divinity School

 * Allen W. Brown (1909–1990), bishop of Albany
 * Wallace E. Conkling (1896–1979), bishop of Chicago
 * William Chauncey Emhardt (1874–1950), priest and ecumenist
 * Reginald H. Fuller (1915–2007), priest, biblical scholar
 * Alfred A. Gilman (1878–1966), missionary bishop of Hankow
 * Elwood Haines (1893–1949), bishop of Iowa
 * Wilbur Hogg (1916–1986), bishop of Albany
 * Francis Lickfield (1908–1998), bishop of Quincy
 * Henry L. Phillips (1847–1947), rector of the Church of the Crucifixion in Philadelphia
 * Lyman Pierson Powell (1866–1946), president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
 * Jules Louis Prevost (1863–1937), missionary to Alaska
 * Theophilus Gould Steward (1843–1924), A.M.E. missionary, professor at Wilberforce University
 * Paul Washington (1921–2002), priest and activist
 * Arthur E. Woolley (1931-2021), priest, activist