Lloyd Alexander Lewis Episcopal Priest / Educator

Lloyd Alexander Lewis

Episcopal Priest / Educator

Lloyd Alexander Lewis, a native Alexandrian, was the first Black graduate of Saint Stephen’s School. A Classics scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1972 he became the first African American from Alexandria to be ordained into the Episcopal ministry. He began his academic career teaching at Virginia Theological Seminary, earning a Ph.D. in New Testament Studies at Yale University. He holds the Downs Professorship of New Testament at the Seminary.