People
Because it has formed many of the church's clergy, GTS has maintained a considerable influence on the life of the church.
Current notable professors include J. Robert Wright the St. Mark's in the Bowery Professor of Ecclesiastical History and David Hurd the Professor of Church Music and Organist of the Chapel of the Good Shepherd.
Notable alumni include:
- The Rev. James Lloyd Breck, a co-founder of Nashotah House and the founder of Seabury Divinity School
- The Rev. Jeannette Piccard, one of the "Philadelphia Eleven" who were the first women to be ordained in the Episcopal Church
- The Rt. Reverend Gene Robinson, 9th Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire and first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church
Many other notable figures, including a number of bishops, have graduated from the seminary.
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Famous quotes containing the word people:
“A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office every day. Not because he likes it but because he can’t think of anything else to do.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“...I have never known a “movement” in the theater that did not work direct and serious harm. Indeed, I have sometimes felt that the very people associated with various “uplifting” activities in the theater are people who are astoundingly lacking in idealism.”
—Minnie Maddern Fiske (1865–1932)
“True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion.”
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)