William Bacon Stevens

William Bacon Stevens
Bishop of Pennsylvania
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	June 11, 1887 (aged 71) 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 became Bishop of Pennsylvania. He served in that office and as bishop of the American Episcopal churches in Europe until his death.^[1]

References

1. "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.

External links

• Documents by William Bacon Stevens from Project Canterbury