The Rev. Lang Lowrey, Interim President of the General Theological Seminary (GTS) announced today the appointment of the Rt. Rev. Peter James Lee, as Interim Dean of GTS, the Episcopal Church’s oldest theological seminary. The former Bishop of Virginia and one of the Church’s longest-serving bishops, Bishop Lee currently serves San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral as Interim Dean.
After the Seminary’s 12th Dean and President, the Very Rev. Ward B. Ewing, announced in December of 2009 his intention to retire, Trustees of the Seminary formed a search committee under the leadership of trustee Dr. Michael Gilligan. Upon recommendation from the committee and in light of serious financial challenges faced by the school, Trustees decided in June 2010 to divide the post of Dean and President into separate positions. On June 9, 2010 the Rev. Lang Lowrey was selected as Interim President and charged with financial and administrative oversight of the school and was vested with all the constitutional powers previously lodged with the Dean and President. Meanwhile the search continued for a new Interim Dean to be responsible for day-to-day operations of the Seminary including oversight of its academic programs.
No doubt there will be a seminar course on how to kow-tow to the new sheriff and abdicate the episcopacy and diocese and agreements for those training for future service in the EcUSA/TEc. And required course work on litigation as evangelism, too.
Heh — Peter Lee can do for General Theological Seminary what he did so ably for the Diocese of Virginia. Perhaps his successor at GTS can then attempt to pick up the pieces, as his successor in Virginia.
geez is it just me or does it seem that TEC keeps recycling the same people for different jobs?
keithj00731, once the incredibly adaptable plastic man has been proven, just plug him in when you need the malleable, shape-shifting, never-to-be-rigid, able to adapt to any container and slip any restrainer situation. Which GTS surely will be given the status of “theological” edukation in the EcUSA/TEc; thus, plastic man and glove, a perfect fit -or not- and then you must akquit (a la Bennison).