Episcopal Divinity School

The Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) is an unaccredited theological school in New York City that trains students for service with the Episcopal Church. It was affiliated with Union Theological Seminary from 2018 to 2023. During the 2023-24 academic year, EDS is in transition as it discerns its future. It maintains offices at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City and offers some programing in New York and online. Known throughout the Anglican Communion for progressive teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students were directly involved in many of the social controversies surrounding the Episcopal Church in the latter half of the 20th century and at the start of the 21st.

Established to train people for ordination in the Episcopal Church, the seminary also trained students from other denominations; since 2011, members of the Metropolitan Community Church could train for ordination in their church, receiving specific instruction on their church's polity.