Canon for Academic and Transition Ministries, the Episcopal Diocese of Washington
The Rev. Canon Preston B. Hannibal
The Rev. Canon Preston B. Hannibal
Preston B. Hannibal is canon for academic and transition mnistries in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. In this position he serves as the liaison between the bishop’s office and the 21 schools associated with the diocese. He also coordinates the Episcopal Chaplains at nine university campus ministry sites in the diocese. In addition, Hannibal works with the diocese’s growing Young Adult Ministries’ program. For the past five years, chief among his responsibilities has been the Bishop John T. Walker School for Boys, the newest school in the Diocese of Washington. Its mission and ministry is to serve the boys of low income families who would not ordinarily have a chance to attend a school of its caliber.
Until June 2003, Hannibal was senior chaplain and chair of the Religion Department at St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts. Before his appointment to St. Mark’s in July 1995 he was, for nine years, the associate minister in the Memorial Church and University Chaplain at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hannibal currently holds an appointment as affiliated minister in the Memorial Church, Harvard University. He is a member of the Episcopal Church’s Office of Black Ministries, Recruitment, Training, and Development Committee.
Born in New York City, Hannibal grew up in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Westmont College with an A.B. in sociology. He earned his Masters of Divinity degree from Bexley Hall Seminary. He has also done graduate study in theology at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University. He has been a visiting scholar at St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge, England, where he studied the life and ministry of the Rt. Rev. Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the first African bishop in the Anglican Communion.
He and his wife, Sandi, a teacher at Norwood School, have three grown children.