# 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
* 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, 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
* 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
* 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
* 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)
* 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
* 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
* 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