Chaplain for Triennial 2022

Having been ordained (2015) when her contemporaries were retiring, Rev. Fisher-Stewart, recently retired after having served as associate rector, Calvary Episcopal Church, and interim rector, St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, both in Washington, DC. Prior to being ordained, she served as lay associate for ten year with the Church of Our Saviour, also in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as the president, Crummell-Cooper Chapter (DC), Union of Black Episcopalians. Prior to ordination, she taught at the University level and retired from the Metropolitan Police Department, where she served for twenty years. She served as Director for the Center for the Study of Civil Disorder for the Police Foundation and chief law enforcement consultant for the International City/County Management Association.

Committed to seeing God’s justice in this present life, her guiding scriptural verses are Luke 4:18-19 and Amos 4:18-24. She loves to push boundaries in and out of the church. Her other love is teaching where she pushes those in Bible study to answer the question, “Why is this important to you.? A life-long learner herself, she has degrees from the University of Maryland Global Campus, the University of Maryland, the American University, the University of the District of Columbia, and the Wesley Theological Seminary.

She is also the author of “Black and Episcopalian: The Struggle for Inclusion” (2022, Church Publishing) and editor and contributor of “Preaching Black Lives Matter” (2019, Church Publishing). The love of her life is her son, David.

The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart, Ph.D.

President, DC Chapter – Union of Black Episcopalians