The Rev. Canon Harold T. Lewis, Ph.D., D.D., D.C.L.

HAROLD T. LEWIS has been the rector of Calvary Episcopal Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, since 1996. Since his ordination in 1971, he has served congregations in Honduras, England, Washington, DC, New Haven, CT and his native Brooklyn, NY. From 1983 until 1994, he served on the staff of the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church as Director of the Office of Black Ministries. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University, a Master of Divinity from Yale, and a Doctor of Philosophy (in theology) from the University of Birmingham (England). He has also been awarded two honorary degrees: Doctor of Divinity from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale; and Doctor of Canon Law from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. A former research fellow at Cambridge University, he has also pursued graduate studies at Catholic University in Washington; the Center for International Documentation in Cuernavaca, Mexico; and St. George's College, Jerusalem. He is an honorary canon of the Diocese of Bukavu, Congo, and the first recipient of the Mikkelsen Prize for excellence in prophetic preaching.

Currently an adjunct professor in church and society at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Dr. Lewis has also taught at the George Mercer School of Theology in Garden City, NY and the General Theological Seminary, and has been visiting lecturer at the Institut Anglican Interdiocesain de Theologie in the Congo, and the College of the Transfiguration in Grahamstown, South Africa. He was coordinator of the 2nd International Conference on Afro-Anglicanism in Cape Town.

Among Dr. Lewis' publications are A Church for the Future: South Africa as the Crucible for Anglicanism in a New Century; Yet With a Steady Beat: the African American Struggle for Recognition in the Episcopal Church; Christian Social Witness; and Elijah's Mantle: Pilgrimage, Politics and Proclamation. He has also contributed chapters in several books and written articles in various scholarly journals, including Anglican Theological Review. A musician who enjoys accompanying soloists, he has written hymns which have been published in Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African American Hymnal; Wonder Love and Praise, and This Far By Faith.

Dr. Lewis serves on several boards including the Metro-Urban Institute at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and the Pittsburgh Multi-Cultural Arts Initiative, the Episcopal Church Foundation Fellows' Forum and Shared Interest, an organization which makes loans to grassroots organizations in South Africa. He is former chair of the Advisory Council of the Anglican Observer to the United Nations. He is married to Claudette Richards Lewis, an administrator in the Allegheny County Department of Human Services.