Sam Candler

The Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler serves as Dean of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. He is active in Atlanta’s interfaith community and helped develop its formal structure, named the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta. Prior to this he served as Dean of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, South Carolina.

Dean Candler is a frequent teacher and preacher in the U.S. and in the wider Anglican Communion and speaks regularly on the role of religion in matters of science and environmental sustainability. He is serving his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees.

He received a BA, cum laude, from Occidental College and an MDiv, magna cum laude, from Yale University Divinity School.