The Rev. Gawain F. de Leeuw, DMin

Vicar and Priest-in-Charge, Holy Trinity Inwood

New York, NY

The Rev. Gawain F. de Leeuw serves as Vicar and Priest-in-Charge of Holy Trinity Church Inwood in New York City. He previously served as Rector of St. Bartholomew’s in White Plains, New York, and as Vicar for the English Mission in the Cathedral in Seoul, South Korea. He is a lifelong professed member of the Order of the Ascension, an Episcopal religious order grounded in Benedictine spirituality and organization development. He is trained in organization development and group relations theory.

He is currently a trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and serves on the real estate and finance subcommittees. He also serves with diocesan teams dedicated to creation care and economic justice. Most recently, he served on the General Convention’s Task Force on the Theology of Money. He founded the exploratory task force into establishing a diocesan credit union and has served on numerous boards.

Father de Leeuw’s interest in financial institutions began in 1995 when he worked for a community development bank. Since then, he has worked in the areas of public access to capital, shareholder responsibility, and financing energy transition.

In 2019, Father de Leeuw wrote The Body of Christ in a Market Economy, a monograph that offers a theological understanding of contemporary behavioral economics through mimetic theory.

Father de Leeuw was elected to his first term on The Church Pension Fund Board of Trustees in 2022.

He received a DMin in Congregational Development from Bexley Seabury and an Anglican Studies degree from the General Theological Seminary. He received an MDiv from the University of Chicago and a BA (hon) from Oberlin College.