Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo

Victor Aloyo is the son of the late Esperanza Aloyo and Victorino Aloyo from Vieques, Puerto Rico. He has been married to Suzette Aloyo for thirty-six years, and they are blessed with two daughters, Kayla Cristen, an aerospace engineer working in Huntsville, AL, and Alyssa Nicole, serving as an EDI administrator at The Steve Fund in Nashville, TN.  Before being called to Columbia, Victor served as the Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Community Engagement at Princeton Theological Seminary and Organizing/Lead Pastor of La Iglesia Presbiteriana Nuevas Fronteras. Victor received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Sociology from the College of New Rochelle, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Doctorate in Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing his dissertation on navigating diversity and inclusion within a framework of social justice.

Abundance & Grace: A Blueprint for Flourishing in Faith & Hope will provide the substance
for the Seminary’s annual plans and assessments for the next four academic years as we celebrate
in 2027 the one hundred years of its move from Columbia, South Carolina, to Decatur, GA. In
joyful anticipation of the Seminary’s two-hundredth anniversary in 2028, we aspire, through our
strategic directions, to become an educational institution of theological inquiry and innovation
that will:

• Build on Columbia Seminary’s excellence in theological inquiry, critical thinking, and
  innovation, providing theological leadership for the Church and the world by educating
  and equipping faithful, imaginative, and effective pastoral leaders through degree and
  non-degree programs, contextual education, research, and lifelong learning.
• Expand on Columbia Theological Seminary’s residential campus, developing and
  implementing the framework for a campus culture22 of Christian worship, hospitality,
  and belonging that exists on our campus and extends translocally23 and globally.
• Enrich Columbia Theological Seminary’s exemplary workplace culture, pursuing
  excellence in our policies, procedures, and practices, stewarding the seminary’s
  resources, and building mutually beneficial relationships with external partners at the
  local, regional, and global levels.
• Strengthen Columbia Theological Seminary’s vision of inclusion and commitment to
  diversity by engaging, exploring, and facilitating the highest levels of institutional
  leadership and effectiveness, organizational justice, and future-oriented planning within
  an environment of transparent, shared governance as we join boldly in the new thing
  God is already doing among us.