John C. Dorhauer is an American Protestant clergy member, author, and theologian who served as the ninth General Minister and President (GMP) of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a Mainline Protestant denomination, from June 30, 2015, through July 2023.
He later earned a D.Min degree from United Theological Seminary, (2004) where he studied the effects of white privilege on the Church.
[4] Dorhauer was the first person to conduct a legal same-sex wedding in the state of Arizona when he performed the marriage of David Laurence and Kevin Patterson on October 17, 2014.
[5] On March 19, 2015, Dorhauer was approved as nominee to serve as UCC General Minister and President.
[7] He said that there would be two main themes to his tenure: One was to call on the denomination to rethink itself and to consider new ways of “being church” in light of reduced societal interest in institutional religion.