Paul Woolley

Paul Woolley (16 March 1902 – 17 March 1984) was an American pastor and professor.

Biography Born 16 March 1902, to a pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, Woolley grew up in The Plains, Ohio. During a visit to Germany, in preparation to visit China as a missionary, he married a Russian countess. Along with J. Gresham Machen, he was a minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, but they were suspended following its split, with them—alongside others—organizng the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in 1936.

Woolley was a professor of Church history at Westminster Theological Seminary from its inception in 1929 until his retirement in 1977. In 1982, a Festschrift was published in his honor.

Woolley had two children. He died on 17 March 1984, aged 82, at OhioHealth O'Bleness Hospital, in Athens.