Church at its Thirty-Third Quadrennial Session and the Thirty-Fourth General Conference.
[1] In 1975 he graduated from the United States Military Academy for Chaplains, Staten Island, New York, and also 1975 received Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) Training for Ministers, Fort Hood, Texas.
In 1977 he attended training courses for ministering to cancer patients, University of Alabama.
[1] In 1980 he received an honorary Doctorate of Divinity Degree from Reed School of Religion, Los Angeles, CA, and in 1996 the Doctorate of Humane Letters from Miles College, Birmingham, May, 2002.
[2] Stewart was elected and consecrated bishop in 1998 at the 33rd Quadrennial Session and 34th General Conference.