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7 unusual facts about Virginia Theological Seminary


Armistead L. Boothe

Boothe concluded his career as Director of Development for Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria.

Lloyd A. Lewis

has served on the faculty of Virginia Theological Seminary from 1978 through 1991 and from 2000 to the present.

Robert Prichard

For the theologian at Virginia Theological Seminary, see Robert Prichard (theologian)

Stephen Lloyd Cook

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.

Virginia State Route 402

SR 402 heads north as a four-lane undivided highway that passes to the east of the Virginia Theological Seminary and Episcopal High School.

Virginia State Route 420

The state highway passes its namesake, the Virginia Theological Seminary, just west of its intersection with Quaker Lane, which heads north as SR 402.

William P. Remington

Remington later studied for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1905.


G. T. Abraham

While attending the Lambeth Conference, 1998, the Virginia Theological Seminary conferred upon Abraham an honorary doctorate at a special academic convocation on 27 July 1998 in Canterbury Cathedral's Crypt in Canterbury, Kent by Bishop Peter James Lee of Episcopal Diocese of Virginia.

Wallace Adams-Riley

The Rev. D. Wallace Adams-Riley, son of Weston Adams and Elizabeth Nelson Adams, was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from The University of the South and Virginia Theological Seminary.


see also

Abrahams Commission

John Chilembwe (1871 – 1915) was a Baptist minister, who returned to Nyasaland after education at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, (now Virginia University of Lynchburg) in 1900 and founded the Providence Industrial Mission.

William Jervis Livingstone

Chilembwe left Nyasaland in 1897 to be educated at the Virginia Theological Seminary and College, (now Virginia University of Lynchburg).