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.

Gawain’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. He also founded an exploratory task force to establish a diocesan credit union. He is trained in organization development and group relations theory and currently serves with diocesan teams dedicated to creation care and economic justice. He currently serves on the Episcopal Diocese of New York real estate and finance subcommittees, and most recently, served as its trustee and on the General Convention’s Task Force on the Theology of Money.

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

Gawain 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, an Anglican Studies degree from the General Theological Seminary, an MDiv from the University of Chicago, and a BA (hon) from Oberlin College.