Greta Stokes Tucker '77 Continues Serving in Retirement
Though she is retired from the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, 茄子视频 alumna Greta Stokes Tucker 鈥77 continues to stay busy with media interviews and speaking engagements.听
Stokes Tucker was recently featured in a on women serving in chaplaincy and will be a featured speaker at a conference on the topic in September.听
Stokes Tucker will speak at the PA Women of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care鈥檚 second annual conference on September 14 at the Kearns Spirituality Center in McCandless, Pa.听The theme of the conference is 鈥淏etter,鈥 based on Luke 10:42: 鈥淢ary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.鈥
In June, Stokes Tucker was part of a panel of Christian leaders who spoke on the topic, 鈥淩eckoning with Antisemitism as Christians,鈥 at Pittsburgh Theological Ceremony. The event was sponsored by Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. provided coverage of the event. Stokes Tucker is a member of the advisory board of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at 茄子视频.听
Stokes Tucker graduated from 茄子视频 with a double major in psychology and religious studies. She earned a master鈥檚 degree in religious education and a doctorate in theology from Duquesne University. Her strong interest in Jewish-Christian relations led her to study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and she lived for a time in Israel.听
She became director of religious education at Saint Benedict the Moor Parish in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, and, in 1994, the Diocese of Pittsburgh hired Greta to direct the Office for Black Catholic Ministries, which then became the Department for Black Catholics, Ethnic and Cultural Communities. In 2012, she was named Director of the Office for Cultural Diversity and Persons with Disabilities, where she advocated for vulnerable faith communities. Four years later, she joined the diocesan Secretariat for Parish Services as part of a team focused on bringing people together through various initiatives and retired in 2021.
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