'Dana McLean Greeley' (
July 5 1908 -
June 13 1986) was a
Unitarian minister, the last president of the
American Unitarian Association and, upon its merger with the
Universalist Church in America, was the founding president of the
Unitarian Universalist Association.
Greeley received a
Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from
Harvard Divinity School in 1933 and was ordained by his home parish church in
Lexington, Massachusetts. His first two settlements were the Unitarian churches in
Lincoln, Massachusetts (1932-1934) and
Concord, New Hampshire (1934-1935). In 1935, at the age of 27, he was called to the prestigious
Arlington Street Church in
Boston where he served until 1958.
After his presidency with the UUA, Rev. Greeley became Visiting Professor of the Church and World Peace at the Meadville/Lombard Theological School in
Chicago and President of the
International Association for Religious Freedom. In 1970 he returned to parish ministry accepting a call from the First Parish in
Concord, Massachusetts where he served until his death in 1986.
During his lifetime Rev. Greeley received many awards, including honorary degrees from
Meadville Theological School,
Emerson College,
St. Lawrence University,
Tufts University and
Portia Law School. Additionly, the Concord congregation and his friends and colleagues created in his memory the
Dana Greeley Foundation which supports grassroots efforts toward making the world more peaceful.
External links
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UUA biography
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Dana Greeley Foundation