Samuel T. Lloyd III (born 1950[1]-2022) was a priest of the Episcopal Church in the United States who served as the ninth Dean of the Washington National Cathedral,[2] having been installed there on April 23, 2005, and serving until September 18, 2011.
Before his tenure as dean, he had been the rector of Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the largest Episcopal congregations in the United States.
[4] Earlier in his ministry he had been chaplain of the University of the South and rector of the Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer in Chicago, Illinois.
During his time in Washington, he celebrated the Cathedral’s centennial, launched a resident congregation that continues as the beating heart of the Cathedral's worship life, established the Cathedral as a premiere home for important civic conversations,[7] and led Disciples of Christ in Community classes to establish community within the congregation.
The Cathedral budget, overseen by The Protestant Episcopal Cathedral Foundation (PECF),[8] was affected by the 2009 stock market crash and it had undertaken construction of an expensive underground parking lot shortly after Lloyd arrived (albeit with plans having existed before Lloyd), but expensive and needed repairs to the cathedral itself were not undertaken.