Pastors of Union Baptist Church
Mark-Anthony Montgomery
2021 - Present
Rev. Montgomery was recently elected to serve as Assistant Pastor of Union Baptist Church. He is a graduate of the Virginia Union University Master of Divinity program and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religious Studies from Morehouse College in 2011.
He returned to Baltimore after serving Shiloh Baptist Church in Alexandria, Virginia as Pastor of Student Ministries.
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Alvin Hathaway |
2007 - 2021
The Reverend Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr. was called to Union Baptist Church as Assistant Pastor in 2004, and elevated to the position of Pastor of this historic “Servant Church” in 2007.
A native Baltimorean and son of Union Baptist Church, he is truly a man of God. Acknowledging his call to the ministry and through obedience to Christ, he prepared himself academically and spiritually for the shepherding of God’s people. Rev. Hathaway has earned a Ph. D. in Philosophy of Religion from the North Carolina College of Theology and a Doctor of Ministry degree from the United Theological Seminary.
Vernon Dobson |
1967 - 2007
Reverend Vernon Nathaniel Dobson was born October 29, 1923, into a committed, philosophical family headed by his father, the Reverend Spencer Dobson.
From 1946 to 1949, Dobson attended Howard University where he came under the tutelage of Dr. Mordecai Johnson, Dr. Benjamin Mays, Reverend Howard Thurman, Ralph Bunche, William Leo Hansberry, Thurgood Marshall and others. He received his B.D. in 1949 and went on to Harvard University to pursue graduate studies. He joined the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance in 1953 and was twice named president.
Dobson was installed as pastor of Union Baptist Church in 1967, and he organized buses for the March On Washington and founded the Food Bank of Maryland. With Parren Mitchell, Joseph Howard, Marion Bascomb, Harold Dobson and others, he founded the “Goon Squad” to combat racial segregation in Baltimore. In 1968, Dobson established a grassroots organization, BUILD (Baltimoreans United In Leadership Development) with Monsignor Clare and Reverend Wendell Phillips.
Baxter L. Matthews
1940 -1967
William Thompson
1872 - 1874
J. Timothy Boddie
1929 -1939
William Williams
1861 - 1869
David E. Over
1924 - 1928
Chauncey Leonard
1856 - 1858
Harvey Johnson
1874 - 1923
John Carey
1852 - 1855