# List of Virginia Theological Seminary people

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
* 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
* Jacob Ashburn (1880–1955), member of the Ohio House of Representatives
* 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
* William J. Cox (1921–2025), suffragan bishop of Maryland
* 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 (1931-2021), 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