Most Reverend Dr. DAVID I. HARTMAN
Most Reverend Dr. David I. Hartman is the Metropolitan Archbishop of Azusa Christian Temple of Salvation, Bronx, New York. He is the Primate to the Apostolic Fellowship of Churches, Savannah, Georgia. He is a member of the Joint College of African American Pentecostal Bishop’s Congress. Archbishop Hartman is the first African American Chief Chaplain for the Taxi and Limousine Commission of the City of New York. He served as Director of the Clergy Crisis Responder Program, Office of Emergency Management for The City of New York under Honorable Rudolph W. Giuliani. This directorship governed the spiritual care component and management of a team of clerics from varied denominational backgrounds and support staff from the New York City Police Department whose overall mandate was to provide City-wide spiritual care and support to those who were impacted by the World Trade Center attack. This initiative, which was the first of its kind, has since served as a national model for Spiritual Care. In 2002, Archbishop Hartman retired from the New York City Police Department after twenty-one years of exemplary law enforcement service.
He received his education from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He is a graduate of Full Gospel Bible College, and Kingdom University’s School of Ministry. In addition, he holds a Master’s of Divinity from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, and Doctorate of Divinity; Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. In May of 2004, he was graduated magna cum laude from Cornell University’s Family Development Credentialing Program.
His passion is to see kingdom minded citizens become transpneumigrated into kingdom ambassadors equipped to minister to generations of anointed vessels of valor.
