Though she is retired from the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh, Seton Hill alumna Greta Stokes Tucker ‘77 continues to stay busy with media interviews and speaking engagements. 

Stokes Tucker was recently featured in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article on women serving in chaplaincy and will be a featured speaker at a conference on the topic in September. 

Stokes Tucker will speak at the PA Women of Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care’s second annual conference on September 14 at the Kearns Spirituality Center in McCandless, Pa. The theme of the conference is “Better,” based on Luke 10:42: “Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

In June, Stokes Tucker was part of a panel of Christian leaders who spoke on the topic, “Reckoning with Antisemitism as Christians,” at Pittsburgh Theological Ceremony. The event was sponsored by Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle provided coverage of the event. Stokes Tucker is a member of the advisory board of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education at Seton Hill. 

Stokes Tucker graduated from Seton Hill with a double major in psychology and religious studies. She earned a master’s degree in religious education and a doctorate in theology from Duquesne University. Her strong interest in Jewish-Christian relations led her to study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and she lived for a time in Israel. 

She became director of religious education at Saint Benedict the Moor Parish in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, and, in 1994, the Diocese of Pittsburgh hired Greta to direct the Office for Black Catholic Ministries, which then became the Department for Black Catholics, Ethnic and Cultural Communities. In 2012, she was named Director of the Office for Cultural Diversity and Persons with Disabilities, where she advocated for vulnerable faith communities. Four years later, she joined the diocesan Secretariat for Parish Services as part of a team focused on bringing people together through various initiatives and retired in 2021.