The Manross Lecture, named for Historian and the Society's chief benefactor William Wilson Manross (1905-1987), was inaugurated in 2006. Manross was librarian of the Church Historical Society from 1948 until 1956. He was professor of church history and librarian at the Philadelphia Divinity School from 1958 until his retirement in 1973. His two major books are A History of the American Episcopal Church (1935), and The Episcopal Church in the United States, 1800-1840: A Study in Church Life (1938). Read more about him from an article in Anglican and Episcopal History below.

• 2026 "“Now is the time for a Black Bishop”: The surprising agreement between African Americans and English High Churchmen in the 1850s." The Rev. Benjamin King, Ph.D., is Academic Dean and Duncalf-Villavoso Professor of Church History at the Seminary of the Southwest.
• 2023 "A New Era in Engaged Anglican & Episcopal History: Memory, Legacy & Embodied Practice." The Rev. Dr. Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook, PhD, EdD. 
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• 2018 "Religion, Art, and Money: Episcopalians and American Culture from the Civil War to the Great Depression." Dr. Peter W. Williams, Distinguished Professor Emeritus Comparative Religion and American Studies, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
• 2015  "White Lies That Tell the Truth of the  Landscape: Mapping the Episcopal Church and The Impact of 'Place' On Religion. Dr. Philip L. Barlow, Leonard J. Arlington Professor of Mormon History & Culture at Utah State University.
• 2012  "This Great Day of Suffering," The Rev. Dr. Gardiner H. Shattuck, Jr.
• 2009 "Anglican History in the 21st Century: Remembering All the Baptized"The Rev. Canon Dr. Jane Shaw, Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, Oxford and Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Assistant Professor of Church History at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific.
• 2006 "'Oh Brave New World that has such people in it!' Anglicanism's Global Future," The Rev. Dr. Frederick Quinn.