The Reverend 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 been an overseas missionary in Honduras and in Congo, and has served parishes in England, Washington, D.C., 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 University, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Birmingham (England). He has also been awarded the degree of Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, from the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale, and the degree of Doctor of Canon Law, honoris causa, 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.

 

Currently an adjunct professor in church and society at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Dr. Lewis has also taught at the George Mercer School of Theology, Garden City, New York, The New York Theological Seminary and the General Theological Seminary. He was also visiting lecturer at the Institut Anglican Interdiocesain de Theologie, Bukavu, Congo, and the College of the Transfiguration, Grahamstown, South Africa. He whas also served as coordinator of the Conference on Afro-Anglicanism in Cape Town, in 1995. Dr Lewis is the first recipient of the Mikkelsen Prize for excellence in prophetic preaching.

 

Among Dr. Lewis' publications are 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 contributed chapters to Mission Matters; Anglicanism: A Global Perspective; A New Coinversation: Essays on the Future of Theology in the Episcopal Church; and A Heart for the Future: Writings on Christian Hope. He has written articles in various scholarly journals and his poetry has appeared in Anglican Theological Review. A musician who enjoys accompanying soloists, he has written hymns which have appeared in Lift Every Voice and Sing II: An African American Hymnal, Wonder Love and Praise, and This Far By Faith.

 

In Pittsburgh, Dr. Lewis serves on the boards of the Urban League and the Metro-Urban Institute of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. In the national arena, he is a member of the Episcopal Church Foundations Fellows' Forum and the board of Seabury-Western Theololgical Seminary. By appointment of the Archbishop of Canterbury, he serves on the Advisory Council for the Anglican Observer to the United Nations, of which he is the former chair.

 

Dr. Lewis and hiw wife, Claudette, an administrator in the Allegheny Country Department of Human Services, have one son.

 

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