List of Virginia Theological Seminary people explained

This is a partial list of people affiliated with Virginia Theological Seminary, located in Alexandria, Virginia, United States.

Faculty

• C. FitzSimons Allison (born 1927), bishop of South Carolina, church historian
• Michael J. Battle (born 1963), theologian, vice president and associate dean
• Armistead L. Boothe (1907–1990), state legislator, director of development
• Stephen Lloyd Cook (born 1962), Old Testament scholar
• Avery Dulles (1918–2008), visiting professor
• Mark Dyer (1930–2014), professor of theology and director of spiritual formation
• Reginald H. Fuller (1915–2007), New Testament scholar
• A. Katherine Grieb (born 1949), New Testament scholar
• Christopher Hancock (born 1954), theologian
• Robert Heaney (born 1972), Professor of Theology and Mission
• John Johns (1796–1876), bishop of Virginia, president
• Lloyd A. Lewis (born 1947), New Testament scholar
• Ian Markham (born 1962), theologian, dean and president
• William Meade (1789–1862), bishop of Virginia, theologian and president
• Jack Moline (born 1952), rabbi, activist
• Robert Prichard (born 1949), church historian
• John H. Rodgers Jr. (1930–2022), systematic theologian
• Timothy F. Sedgwick (born 1946), theologian, associate dean
• Franklin Spencer Spalding (1865–1914), Episcopal Bishop of Utah^[1]
• Henry St. George Tucker (1874–1959), bishop of Virginia, pastoral theologian
• William Holland Wilmer (1782–1827), founding instructor and later president of the College of William and Mary

Alumni

• G. T. Abraham, former bishop of the Diocese of Nandyal in the Church of South India
• Peter Akinola (born 1944), primate of the Church of Nigeria
• C. FitzSimons Allison (born 1927), bishop of South Carolina
• Marc Handley Andrus (born 1956), bishop of California
• Scott Field Bailey (1916–2005), bishop suffragan of Texas, bishop of West Texas
• Stephen H. Bancroft (born 1946), dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in Detroit, Michigan, executive director of the Detroit Office of Foreclosure Prevention and Response
• Middleton Barnwell (1882–1957), bishop of Idaho, bishop of Georgia, president of Boise Junior College
• Gregory T. Bedell (1817–1892), bishop of Ohio
• Scott Benhase (born 1957), bishop of Georgia
• Karl M. Block (1886–1958), bishop of California
• Francis Eric Bloy (1904–1993), bishop of Los Angeles
• William Jones Boone (1811–1864), missionary bishop of Shanghai
• William Jones Boone Jr. (1846–1891), missionary bishop of Shanghai
• Samuel B. Booth (1883–1935), bishop of Vermont
• Walter Russell Bowie (1882–1969), priest, author
• Gregory Orrin Brewer, Bishop of Central Florida
• Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), preacher, author, bishop of Massachusetts
• George Browne (1933–1993), bishop of Liberia, archbishop of West Africa
• J. Jon Bruno (1946–2021), bishop of Los Angeles
• Mariann Edgar Budde (born 1959), bishop of Washington
• Charles Carpenter (1889–1969), bishop of Alabama
• Alison Cheek (1927-2019), one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church
• Charles E. Cheney (1836–1916), presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
• Randolph Claiborne (1906–1986), bishop of Atlanta
• Lloyd Rutherford Craighill (1886–1971), bishop of Anking, China
• John Croneberger (born 1938), bishop of Newark
• John Culmer (1891–1963), priest, activist (BPDS alumnus)
• Clifton Daniel (born 1947), bishop of East Carolina
• James Parker Dees (1915–1990), presiding bishop of the Anglican Orthodox Church
• Jane Dixon (1937–2012), bishop of Washington
• Harry Doll (1903–1984), bishop of Maryland
• Denise Giardina (born 1951), novelist
• Robert Atkinson Gibson (1846–1919), bishop of Virginia
• Terrell Glenn (born 1958), bishop in the Anglican Mission in the Americas and the Anglican Church in North America
• W. A. R. Goodwin (1869–1939), rector of Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, "the father of Colonial Williamsburg"
• William Gordon (1918–1994), bishop of Alaska
• Walter H. Gray, Bishop of Connecticut
• A. Katherine Grieb (born 1949), New Testament scholar
• James Groppi (1930–1985), Roman Catholic priest, civil rights activist
• Edward Ambrose Gumbs, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of the Virgin Islands
• Whit Haydn (born 1949), magician
• John Hines (1910–1997), bishop of Texas, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
• Samuel Howard (born 1951), bishop of Florida
• George Nelson Hunt, III, 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island
• James Addison Ingle (Yin Teh-sen) (1867–1903), missionary bishop of Hankou, China
• Carolyn Tanner Irish (born 1940), 10th bishop of Utah
• Stephen H. Jecko (1940–2007), 7th bishop of Florida
• Walter H. Kansteiner, III (born 1955), U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs
• Lukas Katenda (born 1978), 2nd bishop of REACH Namibia
• Russell Kendrick (born 1961), 4th bishop of Episcopal Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast
• James Allen Latané (1831–1902), presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church
• Quigg Lawrence, bishop suffragan of the Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope
• Neil Lebhar, bishop of the Gulf Atlantic Diocese
• Lloyd A. Lewis (born 1947), New Testament scholar
• Samuel T. Lloyd III (born 1950), dean of the Washington National Cathedral, rector of Trinity Church, Boston
• Henry I. Louttit (born 1938), bishop of Georgia
• Thomas Mar Makarios (1926–2008), bishop of the Malankara Orthodox Church
• Joseph Mar Thoma (born 1931), metropolitan of the Mar Thoma Church
• James Robert Mathes, fourth Bishop of San Diego
• Frederica Mathewes-Green (born 1952), Eastern Orthodox author, activist
• Gerald Nicholas McAllister, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma
• Martyn Minns (born 1943), missionary bishop of CANA
• Kate Moorehead (born 1970), dean of St. John's Cathedral in Jacksonville, Florida
  • George M. Murray (1919–2006), bishop of Alabama Isaac Lea Nicholson (1844–1906), bishop of Milwaukee
• John Payne (1815–1874), bishop of Liberia
• Charles Clifton Penick (1843–1914), bishop of Cape Palmas, Africa
• William Stevens Perry (1832–1898), bishop of Iowa
• James Pike (1913–1969), bishop of California
• Leonidas Polk (1806–1864), planter, Confederate general, bishop of Louisiana
• Henry C. Potter (1835–1908), bishop of New York
• Noble C. Powell (1891–1968), bishop of Maryland
• William P. Remington (1879–1963), suffragan bishop of South Dakota and Pennsylvania, missionary bishop of Eastern Oregon
• Ann Ritonia, U.S. marine and Episcopal priest
  • Phoebe Alison Roaf, bishop of West Tennessee John H. Rodgers Jr. (1930–2022), systematic theologian
• Sean W. Rowe (born 1975), bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania
• Carrie Schofield-Broadbent, Episcopal priest
  • Bennett Sims (1920–2006), bishop of Atlanta Melissa M. Skelton (born 1951), bishop of New Westminster
• John Shelby Spong (born 1931), bishop of Newark
• Ernest M. Stires (1866–1951), bishop of Long Island
• Albert R. Stuart (1905–1973), bishop of Georgia
• William E. Swing (born 1936), bishop of California
• John T. Tarrant, bishop of South Dakota
• Philip Terzian (born 1950), editor of The Weekly Standard
• Beverley D. Tucker (1846–1930), bishop of Southern Virginia
• Francis Bland Tucker (1895–1984), Bible scholar, priest, hymn composer
• Henry St. George Tucker (1874–1959), missionary bishop of Osaka, bishop of Virginia, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
• John Poyntz Tyler (1862–1931), bishop of North Dakota
• John T. Walker (1925–1989), bishop of Washington
• Channing Moore Williams (1829–1910), missionary bishop of Shanghai, missionary bishop of Yedo in Japan
• Stephen D. Wood (born 1963), bishop of the Diocese of the Carolinas
• John F. Young (1820–1885), bishop of Florida

External links

• Official site

Notes and References

1. https://books.google.com/books?id=C7tNAQAAMAAJ&q=John+Franklin+Spalding John Howard Melish, Franklin Spencer Spalding (Macmillan, 1917), 35.