The Rv. Dr. Roger Ferlo is the president emeritus of the Bexley Hall Seabury Western Theological Seminary Federation, an Episcopal seminary situated in Hyde Park. He is a Scholar in Residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago, and priest associate at the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer in Hyde Park.
From 2004-2012 he was Associate Dean and Director of the Institute for Christian Formation and Leadership, and professor of religion and culture at Virginia Theological Seminary. A graduate of Colgate, where he now serves as a trustee emeritus, he completed his Ph.D. at Yale, specializing in the literature of the English Renaissance. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Colgate in 2010.
Roger was for six years an assistant professor of English at Yale, where he received the Yale Faculty Prize for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching. He trained for the priesthood at the General Theological Seminary in New York City, and has served parishes in the dioceses of Georgia, Pittsburgh and New York, most recently for ten years as rector of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields in New York City.
Roger is an avid amateur cellist and pianist, and plays “for the love of it” with two string groups in Hyde Park. His wife, Anne Harlan, a book and collage artist, is a retired librarian. Their daughter, Liz Harlan-Ferlo, is a published poet, and works as a teacher and diversity trainer in Portland, Oregon. Roger and Anne are expecting their second grandchild at the end of June, who will join her sister Annunziata Marie (“Annie”), age 3. Now (at last, and thankfully) fully inoculated and relatively COVID-proof, they will fly to Portland to greet the new baby (and lavish attention on her big sister) a few days after leaving the Atonement clergy cottage in late June.