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5 unusual facts about master of divinity


Abune Zena Markos

He completed his graduate studies with a degree of Master of Divinity.

Reformed Episcopal Church

Now located in Spring, Texas, just north of Houston, Cranmer House offers residential and distance learning programs for people not seeking ordination, a certificate in Anglican Studies, a Master of Arts in Religion (MAR), Master of Divinity (MDiv), and Master of Theology (ThM).

The seminary offers residential programs leading to the degrees Bachelor of Theology and Master of Divinity, and the Certificate in Theological Studies.

Now located in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, it offers Master of Divinity (MDiv), a Certificate in Bible and Theology, and a Licentiate in Diaconal or Deaconess Ministry.

Starr King School for the Ministry

It offers three degree programs: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in for Social Change (MASC), and Master of Arts in collaboration with the GTU, also known as the Common MA.


Barkley Thompson

He later earned the Master of Divinity degree from the Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas.

Edward M. Rice

Rice received his Masters Degree of Divinity from Kenrick School of Theology in 1987, and then was ordained to the priesthood on January 3, 1987, by the late Archbishop of Saint Louis John L. May, who died a few years later of a brain tumor.

Homer Ellis Finger, Jr.

Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Finger served for twelve years as President of Millsaps College (1952–1964) in Jackson, Mississippi, from which he had graduated before receiving his master of divinity degree from Yale Divinity School.

Joseph L. Levesque

He was ordained a priest in 1967 after studies at Mary Immaculate Seminary in Northampton, Pennsylvania, where he received the degree of Master of Divinity.

Martin Holley

Bishop Holley's post graduate studies include the Theological College at Catholic University in Washington, D.C. and St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree.

William J. Justice

Justice entered the seminary, first at St. Joseph College, Mountain View, California in 1962 and later St. Patrick Seminary, Menlo Park where he earned a Master of Divinity degree in 1968.


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Cain Hope Felder

Dr. Felder holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Philosophy degree in biblical languages and literature from Columbia University in New York; a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary in New York; a Diploma of Theology from Oxford University, Mansfield College in England; a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, Greek & Latin from Howard University in Washington, DC; and a diploma from the Boston Latin School.

Cristina Rémond

Currently, she is a Williams Fellow at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she is completing a Master of Divinity with a focus on healing and personal and societal transformation.

Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico

The Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico —or Seminario Evangélico de Puerto Rico (SEPR) in Spanish — is a mainline Protestant seminary in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico that offers graduate studies conducive to either a Master of Divinity or a Master of Arts in Religion.

Gerald B. Kieschnick

He is a 1970 graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary in Springfield, Illinois (now located in Fort Wayne, Indiana), obtained his Master of Divinity in 1977 at Concordia in Fort Wayne, and received an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1996 from Concordia University in Austin, Texas.

Jens Bargmann

He earned the degree of Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and was ordained a Pastor by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2005.

Joseph M. Hendricks

He attended Mercer University as an undergraduate, obtained a Master of Divinity degree at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Law degree at Atlanta Law School and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Emory University.

Joseph William Tobin

he obtained a Bachelor's degree in philosophy from the Holy Redeemer College, Waterford, Wisconsin in 1977 and, in 1979, a Master's in Religious Education and the Master of Divinity (Pastoral Theology) at the Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary in Esopus, New York.

Marie C. Jerge

Jerge was born in Mineola, N.Y. She earned her bachelor of arts degree from Smith College, Northhampton, Mass., and a master of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, one of eight ELCA seminaries.