Sang Chul Lee (February 29, 1924 – January 28, 2017) was the 32nd Moderator of the United Church of Canada and the first person of Asian descent to hold the position.

At the age of seven, his family moved to Japanese-occupied Manchuria, where he attended a mission high school operated by Canadian missionaries, and against the wishes of his parents - who were devout Shamans - he converted to Christianity.

Lee saw Christianity as a way to cope with the brutality he had experienced in both Manchuria and Korea and was particularly interested in the Exodus story of Moses and the Israelites.

This was how Lee became exposed to Christianity and he was ordained as a minister of the United Church of Canada in 1954, remaining in South Korea to serve their overseas mission there.

God’s dream is so much larger than ours.”[6] After his term as Moderator was finished, Lee went on to become the Chancellor of Victoria College at the University of Toronto, holding that position from 1992 until 1998.