Bishop Parsons Scholarship Fund

The Bishop Parsons Scholarship Fund is conceived to offer our students the financial support they need to undertake residential theological training for three years. Neither an annual fund nor an endowment, the Fund hopes to draw $1 million in gifts annually, from people like you, who care about the future of the Church and the formation of its chosen priests. The ECUSA is the only mainline denomination in the United States that does not financially support its seminaries or its seminarians, and we are seeing an increasing number of gifted applicants today who lack the wherewithal to see themselves through three years of residential study without substancial support. Many seminarians graduate with as much as $50,000 in debt—a burden which can seriously impede effective ministry.

The Bishop Parsons Scholarship Fund is named for one the great Nashotah House luminaries, the 7th Bishop of Quincy who served as Dean of Nashotah House and, variously, as its Professor of New Testament and Ascetical Theology for more than 50 years. He continues to serve the House as an occasional adjunct professor and spiritual director.