James A. Kowalski
| James A. Kowalski | |
|---|---|
| Dean of Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York | |
| Church | Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| Appointed | November 2001 |
| Installed | April 13, 2002 |
| Predecessor | Harry Houghton Pritchett, Jr. |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 11, 1951 Willimantic, Connecticut |
James A. Kowalski was the 9th dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York of the Episcopal Church in New York City, the largest city in the United States. He had been Dean from April 13, 2002, until he stepped down effective June 2017.
Kowalski's father was Roman Catholic and his mother was Jewish, but they joined the Episcopal Church when they started a family. His father was "a blue collar worker, [who] served on the vestry...." Kowalski was born on September 11, 1951 in Willimantic, Connecticut, also described as a "blue collar town".
As a boy, Kowalski sang in a choir, served as an acolyte, and was an Eagle Scout in a boy scout troop.
Kowalski earned a bachelor's degree in English, at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a notable honors society. He attended Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and, after a hiatus at New York University School of Law, he returned to theology studies in 1976 and graduated in 1978 with a master's degree in divinity. In the meantime, in 1976, he married Anne Brewer, a medical doctor who has also been an ordained Episcopal priest since 1980. They have two grown children.
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