Affiliated Professor of Church History
The Rev. Dr. Carla Roland Guzmán
The Rev. Dr. Carla E. Roland Guzmán is the Affiliated Professor of Church History at General Seminary. Roland has served the Episcopal Church of Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy in Manhattan since 2004; as senior pastor since 2007. Saint Matthew and Saint Timothy is an outreach- and community-focused congregation composed of committed persons that are monolingual and bilingual, multi-racial and multi-cultural, aging, diverse in terms of sexuality and gender identity, and mostly of limited financial means.
Having taught at General as an adjunct faculty from 2004 to 2008, she now teaches the second core course in the church-history sequence and is also thrilled to offer an elective course titled Undoing Coloniality--through a decolonial approach seeking to understand the Anglican-wide dynamics which contextualizes global Anglicanism, on the eve of the 2020 Lambeth Conference. Roland has a book due in January of 2020 from CPI titled Unmasking Latinx Ministry for Episcopalians: An Anglican Approach. Her goal is to challenge students to think beyond the Euro-U.S.-centric epistemic foundation and explore additional global perspectives and sources of knowledge. Roland is an Episcopal Church Foundation fellow and a Hispanic Theological Initiative fellow. She most recently received a Pastoral-Study grant from the Louisville Institute.
Roland coordinates the Faith, Family, Equality: The Latinx Roundtable, a program of the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion. The Roundtable “strives to promote understanding, acceptance and affirmation of Latinx LGBTQ+ persons and their families by producing materials that transform Latinx families and communities, Latinx faith communities and the wider church, and help LGBTQ+ communities be more inclusive of Latinx persons.” Roland was profiled in June 2018 as one of NBC Out #Pride30’s initiative.