Berkeley Divinity School

Berkeley Divinity School, founded in 1854, is an official seminary of the Episcopal Church, based in New Haven, Connecticut. The seminary was originally founded as a middle-way between the Anglo-Catholic leaning General Theological Seminary in New York, and the Evangelical-leaning Virginia Theological Seminary. Although the school began in Middletown, Connecticut, it moved to New Haven in 1928 to take advantage of the resources of Yale University. In 1971 a formal agreement between Yale and Berkeley cemented their bond. Today, all students of Berkeley Divinity School are also students of Yale Divinity School. Approximately one third of Yale Divinity School's students undertaking the Master's degree in Divinity are members of Berkeley. Thus, Berkeley operates as a denominational seminary within an ecumenical divinity school. Students graduating from Berkeley Divinity School at Yale earn both a Masters of Divinity degree from Yale and a Diploma in Anglican Studies from Berkeley, certifying that they have received education specific to preparation for Holy Orders in the Episcopal Church.

Deans

• William Palmer Ladd
• Lawrence Rose
• R. William Franklin
• Joseph H. Britton
• Andrew McGowan

Notable alumni

• Charles Minnigerode Beckwith, fourth Bishop of Alabama
• Robert W. Castle (1929–2012), Episcopal priest, activist and actor (Philadelphia, Beloved, Rachel Getting Married).
• Michael Curry, (born 1953), presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church
• Charles Fulton (born 1938), priest, revivalist
• Alfred Harding (1852–1923), bishop of Washington
• Frederick Joseph Kinsman (1868-1944), bishop of Delaware, subsequently converted to Roman Catholicism
• George E. Lounsbury (1838-1904), governor of Connecticut
• Victoria Matthews (born 1954), bishop of Christchurch
• Leonel Mitchell (1930-2012) liturgist
• William Woodruff Niles (1832-1914), bishop of New Hampshire
• Sidney Catlin Partridge (1857-1930), bishop of Kyoto, bishop of West Missouri
• Harry Boone Porter (1923–1999), journalist, liturgist and environmentalist
• Robert Prichard, church historian
• Walter Righter (1923–2011), bishop of Iowa
• Calvin Schofield, Jr. (born 1933) bishop of Southeast Florida
• Massey H. Shepherd, architect of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church
• Kirk Stevan Smith, bishop of Arizona
• Elisha Smith Thomas, second bishop of Kansas
• Lemuel H. Wells (1841–1936), bishop of Spokane
• Henry S. Whitehead (1882–1932), priest, author of horror fiction and fantasy
• Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman (1915–2010), priest, author

External links

• Official website