Ecumenist
The Rev. Canon Roy J. Enquist, Ph. D.
The Rev. Canon Roy J. Enquist, Ph. D.
Dr. Roy J. Enquist, an ordained Lutheran minister, was appointed the Cathedral’s Ecumenist in the spring of 2000, serving as the dean’s principal advisor and planner on matters regarding the Episcopal Cathedral’s relationship with other faiths and denominations. Previously Dr. Enquist served as an assistant professor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and as a professor of theology at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin from 1965 to 1980. He has also served as the assistant executive secretary of the Division of College and University Work of the National Lutheran Council and has studied as a visiting scholar at the Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago.
Dr. Enquist is a widely published author and commentator, having published works on subjects as far ranging as theological education, theology and public policy, reconciliation, human sexuality, abortion and apartheid. Dr. Enquist received his Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is professor emeritus of theology and ethics at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he served as professor from 1980 to 1998. He has also served as visiting professor at theological schools in both Namibia and South Africa.