Father Martin J. Carter, SA
Martin Carter is a Native of High Point. North Carolina and a priest of the Society of the Atonement, Graymoor, Garrison, New York. Father Martin holds a doctor of ministry degree from McCormick Seminary, Chicago, Illinois Father Martin’s seminary studies were done at Pope John XXIII National Seminary, Weston, Massachusetts. There he earned a master
of divinity degree. His undergraduate bachelor of arts degree is from Chicago State University where he concentrated on psychology and counseling.
Father Martin has ministered in the United States, Canada, and Jamaica. He has visited Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, Central America, and Mexico.
Father Martin has done extensive publishing in the New Catholic Encyclopedia, The Jurist, and many magazines and newspapers.
Father Martin has worked in ecumenism with the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches where he represented the point of view of African American Catholics in the preparing of the document “The Unity of the Church and the Renewal of Human Community.” Father Martin has published in the journal of the Society of the Atonement Ecumenical Trends.
Father Martin’s ministry includes youth, marriage preparation, and family counseling. Father Martin has co-authored a book Kujenga: Black Catholic Youth Leadership Conference and co-edited a videotape on Kujenga. Kujenga is a process of growth and leadership training, which includes youth and their parents.
Father Martin has been the recipient of many awards and honors. Among them are Community Service and Salute to Greatness Awards from North Carolina State University and Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, where he ministered as director of the Office of Black Ministry and Evangelization and Episcopal Vicar for African American Catholics.
Father Martin was a member of the drafting committee for the World Council of Churches to help prepare the World Council consultation on justice, which was held in August 1988 with the African American churches and a representative from the Standing Committee of the Commission on Faith and representative from the Standing Committee of the Commission on Faith and Order. There Father Martin presented the point of view of African American Catholics. This sharing was part of the larger World Council study “The Unity of the
Church and the Renewal of Human Community.” Father Martin’s paper “Unity of the Church and the Renewal of Human Community: An African American Catholic Perspective” has been sent to Geneva, Switzerland to be published in the WCC document.
Father Martin taught African American Catholic History and Cross Cultural ministry to the Novices and Seminarians at the Atonement Seminary in Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Board of Trustee for the National Black Catholic Congress and the Board Directors for the National Catholic Conference on Interracial Justice. Fr. Martin has a booklet in press “Why African American”, which he originally prepared for the Secretariat for Black Catholics.
Fr. Martin was the Director of the Caribbean Apostolate consultant to the American Bible Society, visiting Lecturer – the University of St. Thomas. Published in the Journal, “Week of Prayer.” He also served as the
Director of the Office of Black Ministry, Diocese of Brooklyn and Queens. He was installed on January 6, 1994 has the first African American Pastor of Our Lady of Victory, Roman Catholic Church in Brooklyn.