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William Bacon Stevens

American bishop

Field	Value
type	Bishop
honorific_prefix	The Right Reverend
name	William Bacon Stevens
honorific_suffix	D.D., LL.D.
title	Bishop of Pennsylvania
image	William Bacon Stevens 2.jpg
church	Episcopal Church
diocese	Pennsylvania
term	1865–1887
quashed
predecessor	Alonzo Potter
successor	Ozi William Whitaker
ordination	January 7, 1844
ordained_by	Stephen Elliott
consecration	January 2, 1862
consecrated_by	John Henry Hopkins
birth_date
birth_place	Bath, Maine, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
buried	Church of St. James the Less
religion	Anglican
parents	William Stevens & Rebecca Bacon
spouse	Alethea Coppee Stevens
Anna Maria Conyngham
previous_post	Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania (1862-1865)
signature	Signature of William Bacon Stevens (1815–1887).png

Anna Maria Conyngham William Bacon Stevens (July 13, 1815 – June 11, 1887) was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania.

Early life and education

William Bacon Stevens was born in Bath, Maine on July 13, 1815. He was educated at Phillips Academy, Andover and later studied medicine at Dartmouth College and the Medical College of South Carolina.

Career

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 elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1854.

He was consecrated on January 2, 1862, at St. Andrew's Church. Upon the death of Alonzo Potter in 1865, he became Bishop of Pennsylvania. He served in that office and as bishop of the American Episcopal churches in Europe until his death.

Death

He died in Philadelphia, on June 11, 1887, at age 71.

Works

The Parables of the New Testament Practically Unfolded

References

Jordan, John Woolf. (1911). "Colonial Families of Philadelphia". [[The Lewis Publishing Company]].
"APS Member History".

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