Will head interreligious institute in NYC
For the first time in its 58-year history, the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, a ministry of the Franciscan Friars of Atonement in Philipstown, has appointed a lay executive director.

Aaron Hollander, an Episcopalian, was most recently president of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. He has a doctorate in theology from the University of Chicago Divinity School and degrees from Trinity College Dublin and Swarthmore College. He is the author of Saint George Liberator: Hagiography and Resistance in the Modern Mediterranean and editor of Ecumenical Trends.
Based in Manhattan, GEII focuses on unity among Christian faiths.