Phillips Brooks was an American Episcopal clergyman and author, long the Rector of Boston's Trinity Church and briefly Bishop of Massachusetts. He wrote the lyrics of the Christmas hymn, "O Little Town of Bethlehem".
Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), formally called the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, located at 3737 Seminary Road in Alexandria, Virginia is the largest and second oldest accredited Episcopal seminary in the United States.
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, founded in 1854, is a seminary of The Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Along with Andover Newton Theological School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Berkeley is one of the three "Partners on the Quad," which are part of Yale Divinity School at Yale University. Thus, Berkeley operates as a denominational seminary within an ecumenical divinity school. Berkeley has historically represented a Broad church orientation among Anglican seminaries in the country, and was the fourth independent seminary to be founded, after General Theological Seminary (1817), Virginia Theological Seminary (1823), and Nashotah House (1842). Berkeley's institutional antecedents began at Trinity College, Hartford in 1849. The institution was formally chartered in Middletown, Connecticut in 1854, moved to New Haven in 1928, and amalgamated with Yale in 1971.
John Johns was the fourth Episcopal bishop of Virginia. He led his diocese into secession and during the American Civil War and later tried to heal it through the Reconstruction Era. Johns also served as President of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg before that war, and led and taught at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria after the war.
Stephen Cook serves as the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary, the largest of the accredited seminaries of the Episcopal Church.
Robert W. Prichard first taught at Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS) as an adjunct faculty member in 1980, joining the faculty full-time in 1983. In 1988 he was made the Arthur Lee Kinsolving Professor of Christianity in America and Instructor in Liturgy at VTS. He retired in 2019, he was name Faculty Emerita.
Christie Albert Macaluso is an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Hartford in Connecticut from 1997 to 2017. Since 2017, he serves as auxiliary bishop emeritus of Hartford.
John Henry Esquirol was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
Peter James Lee was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church.
George Nelson Hunt III was the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island from 1980 to 1994.
Frederick Grandy Budlong was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from 1934 to 1951. Born in Camden, New York, he died in Hartford, Connecticut.
Jeffery William Rowthorn is a Welsh retired Anglican bishop and hymnographer. His early career was spent in parish ministry in the Diocese of Southwark and the Diocese of Oxford of the Church of England. He then moved to the United States where he worked at two seminaries: Union Theological Seminary in New York City, and Berkeley Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut. He was elected a bishop in the Episcopal Church, serving as a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from 1987 to 1994, and as Bishop in Charge of the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe from 1994 to 2001.
Joseph Hulbert Nichols was an American minister and author.
Kirk Stevan Smith was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona from 2004 to 2019.
Thomas Winthrop Coit was an American Episcopal minister, author, and educator. He was the fifth President of Transylvania University.
William Bradford Turner Hastings was suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from his election in 1981 until his retirement in 1986.
Joseph Warren Hutchens was diocesan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from 1971 to 1977. He had served previously as suffragan from 1961.
Lewis Bliss Whittemore was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Michigan.
Oliver Sherman Prescott was a prominent American Anglo-Catholic priest and activist who was active in the foundation of the Society of St. John the Evangelist. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and baptized by Harry Croswell at Trinity Church on the Green in that city. Prescott attended Trinity College, Hartford from 1840 to 1842 and Yale College from 1843 to 1844; he was graduated from the General Theological Seminary in New York in 1847 and made a deacon that year at Trinity Church in New Haven. He considered himself a protégé at the General of Professor Clement Clarke Moore.