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
• Lowell Pierson Beveridge (1905–1991), musicologist, priest, first professor of speech and liturgics, and choral director
• 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
• 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
• John 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
• Randolph Harrison McKim (1842–1920), American Episcopal clergy and writer ^[2]
• 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 and archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America
• John F. Young (1820–1885), bishop of Florida

External links

• Official site

References

1. John Howard Melish, Franklin Spencer Spalding (Macmillan, 1917), 35.
2. "The House of Deputies". The Archives of the Episcopal Church. Archived from the original on May 18, 2025.