Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School announces speaker for 2022 graduation celebration

April 5, 2022

The faculty, staff, and administration of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School are excited to announce that the speaker for our 2022 graduation celebration will be the Rev. Dr. Gregory Groover, Sr.

The ceremony will be held at 11:30am on Saturday, May 21, 2022.

The Rev. Dr. Groover is a current member of Andover Newton’s Board of Trustees and Pastor of the Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church in Roxbury, MA, where he has served in that capacity since 1994. 

During his tenure as pastor of the Historic Charles Street A.M.E. Church, over forty persons have entered the ministry and are presently serving as pastors, chaplains, seminary professors, and deans across the country. In addition to under-shepherding a growing urban congregation, Groover, Sr., serves as the chairperson of his denomination’s First Episcopal District and the New England Annual Conference Boards of Examiners.

His pastorate at Charles Street has involved him also serving on numerous boards, including: chairperson of the Boston School Committee, chairperson of Hamilton Garrett Music & Arts Academy, president of the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston, and as a board member for the Boston Foundation, YMCA of Greater Boston, Gordon College, and Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
 
Groover, Sr., obtained his B.A. from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA, his M.Div. and M.S.W. jointly from Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University School of Social Work, and his D.Min. from New York Theological Seminary. Groover, Sr., is married to The Reverend Barbara Groover, an Andover Newton Theological School graduate, and they are proud parents to two adult children.
 
For more information about Andover Newton’s graduation celebration, visit the event page.