List of General Theological Seminary people

This is a partial list of notable people associated with the General Theological Seminary in New York City.

This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Professors

• J. Neil Alexander, Trinity Church Professor of Liturgics and Preaching (1995–1997), currently the bishop of Atlanta^[1]
• John Henry Hobart, Pastoral Theology, Governor
• Leonard Hodgson Professor of Christian Apologetics (1889–1969)
• David Hurd, Professor of Church Music and Organist of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, noted composer
• Clement Clarke Moore, Professor of Biblical Languages, donated the land for the seminary to be built, author of A Visit from St. Nicholas
• W. Norman Pittenger, Professor of Christian Apologetics (1935–1966)
• Alexander Schmemann (adjunct)
• Samuel H. Turner, professor of Hebrew from 1830-
• J. Robert Wright, St. Mark's in the Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History

Alumni

• David Knickerbacker, was the 3rd Episcopal Bishop of Indiana.
• The Right Reverend J. Neil Alexander, Doctorate of Theology in 1993
  9th Bishop of Atlanta (ECUSA)
• The Rev. James Lloyd Breck, Bachelor of Divinity, 1841
  Priest, educator, missionary, co-founder of Nashotah House and founder of Seabury Divinity School. His Feast Day is April 2.^[2]
• The Right Reverend Arthur Coxe, Master of Divinity in 1841.
  A former Assistant Bishop of Western New York (ECUSA)
• Robert Duncan, Master of Divinity in 1973.
  Seventh Bishop of Pittsburgh (ECUSA); First Archbishop and Primate (ACNA)
• The Right Reverend Campbell Gray, Bachelor of Divinity, 1904.
  Late Bishop of Northern Indiana (ECUSA)
• The Right Reverend Albert Arthur Chambers, Seventh Bishop of Springfield, Illinois
• The Most Reverend Frank T. Griswold, Master of Divinity student (no degree taken) in 1962.
  25th Presiding Bishop, Episcopal Church, USA
• His Holiness Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Mathews II, Theology in the 1930s
  89th Catholicos of the East
• Steven Andrew Miller, eleventh Bishop of Milwaukee
• The Right Reverend Gene Robinson, Master of Divinity in 1973.
  9th Bishop of New Hampshire (ECUSA)^[3]
• Samuel Isaac Joseph Schereschewsky pioneer missionary to China, bishop of Shanghai, and founder of Saint John's University, Shanghai in 1879.
• His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Master of Pastoral Theology in 1960.
  Current Patriarch of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Church
• Jeannette Piccard (1973), high altitude balloonist and one of the Philadelphia Eleven^[4]
• Marc Nikkel
• Kenneth Abbott Viall, SSJE, Assistant Bishop of Tokyo
• Andrew Yu Yue Tsu, "Bishop of the Burma Road"

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