William Bacon Stevens
| William Bacon Stevens | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Pennsylvania | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Diocese of Pennsylvania |
| In office | 1865–1887 |
| Predecessor | Alonzo Potter |
| Successor | Ozi William Whitaker |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | February 28, 1843 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | July 13, 1815 Bath, Maine, US |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US |
| Previous post | Assistant Bishop, Diocese of Pennsylvania |
William Bacon Stevens (July 13, 1815 – June 11, 1887) was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.
Stevens was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover and later studied medicine at Dartmouth College and the Medical College of South Carolina. After practicing medicine in Savannah, Georgia for five years, he served as state historian of Georgia and at that time he began to study for the priesthood of the Episcopal Church.
He was ordained deacon on February 28, 1843 and later to the priesthood on January 7, 1844. He briefly served as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Georgia prior to being called as the rector of St. Andrew's Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848. He received the Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Pennsylvania and was later elected assistant bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania. He was consecrated on January 2, 1862 at St. Andrew's Church. Upon the death of Alonzo Potter in 1865, he become Bishop of Pennsylvania. He served in that office and as bishop of the American Episcopal churches in Europe until his death.[1]
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| Preceded by | 4th Bishop of Pennsylvania coadjutor, 1862-1865 1865-1887 |
Succeeded by Ozi William Whitaker |
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- ↑ "Stevens, William Bacon". Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. Ed. James Grant Wilson, John Fiske, and Stanley L. Klos. Six volumes, New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1887–1889 and 1999.
