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.

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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,^[1] 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
• Phil Ashey (born c. 1956), bishop of Western Anglicans
• 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^[2]
• 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
• Shannon Rogers Duckworth, bishop of Louisiana
• 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)^[3]
• 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^[4]
• 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
• Andrew St. John, Assistant Bishop of Melbourne
• 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
• Ferguson Glen, a fictitious priest and main character in the novel Thin Blue Smoke, by Doug Worgul.