Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia

The Religious Leaders Council of Greater Philadelphia was founded in 2006 to build relationships of mutual support, offer a moral and spiritual voice in the region, and identify issues of local concern for dialogue and action. Senior leaders from thirty-five diverse religious traditions make up the Council, representing more than two million people from across the greater Philadelphia region.

Religious Leaders Council Members

Co-Conveners

Archbishop Nelson J. Pérez, Archdiocese of Philadelphia

The Rt. Rev. Daniel Gutiérrez, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania

Imam Anwar Muhaimin - Quba Masjid

Rabbi David Straus - Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia

Members

Bishop Julius McAllister
African Methodist Episcopal Church

Imam Mohamed Shehata
Al-Aqsa Islamic Society

Kavneet Singh Pannu
American Sikh Council

Bishop J. Louis Felton
Black Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity

Rabbi Beth Janus
Board of Rabbis of Greater Philadelphia

Bishop Guy Glimp
Church of God in Christ

Rabbi Yosef Zarnighian
Congregation Mikveh Israel

Bishop Peter Hwang
Council of Korean Churches of Greater Philadelphia

Rabbi Eli Freedman
Delaware Valley Association of Reform Rabbis

Bishop John Schol
Eastern Penn Conference
United Methodist Church

Dr. Gity Etemad
Greater Philadelphia Bahá'í Community

The Very Rev. Archimandrite Avgoustinos Psomas
Greek Orthodox

Archdiocese of America

Rev. Luis Cortés
Hispanic Clergy of Philadelphia and Vicinity

Rev. Edward Livingston
Interfaith Philadelphia

Dr. Tahir Wyatt
Majlis Ash Shura of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley

Rev. Dr. Calenthia Dowdy
Metropolitan Christian Council of Philadelphia

Imam Muhammad Miller
Mosque of Shaikh M. R. Bawa Muhaiyaddeen

Rev. William Worley
Pennsylvania Southeast Conference
United Church of Christ

Archbishop Mary Floyd Palmer
Philadelphia Council of Clergy

Rev. Terry Davis
Philadelphia Gospel Movement

Dr. Wilson Goode
Philadelphia Leadership Foundation

Christie Duncan-Tessmer
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

Rev. Ruth Faith Santana-Grace
Presbytery of Philadelphia

Rabbi Abe Friedman
Rabbinical Assembly
Philadelphia Region

Rabbi Shawn Zevit
Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Fr. Mina Mina
St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church in Delaware

Lt. Colonel Larry Ashcraft
Salvation Army of Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware

Bishop Patricia Davenport
Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod
ECLA

President Kim McNaughton
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Archbishop Borys Gudziak
Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia

Rev. Kevin Jagoe
Unitarian Universalist Association
Central Eastern Region

Rev. Dr. Hojin Park
Won Institute of Graduate Studies

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Rev. Edward Livingston

Director of Religious Community Initiatives