Class of: 1955

Gerald Anderson

Gerald Anderson (STH’55, GRS’60) of Hamden, Conn., met Pope Francis in Rome and received an honorary Doctor of Missiology from the Pontifical Urbaniana University on November 14, 2013. “It was the first time an honorary degree has been given to a Protestant by this university, which was founded in 1627 and is owned by the Sacred Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples,” he writes. A former Methodist missionary on the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines, Gerald is director emeritus of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Conn. Email him at anderson_gh@msn.com.

From the Summer 2014 issue.