Ernest Vincent Shayler Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Ernest Vincent Shayler
Honorific Suffix:D.D.
Elected:May 1919
Term:1919–1938
Retired:-->
Predecessor:Arthur Llewellyn Williams
Successor:Howard R. Brinker
Ordination:November 10, 1897
Ordained By:Boyd Vincent
Consecration:September 11, 1919
Consecrated By:Frederick W. Keator
Birth Date:11 October 1868
Birth Place:North Moreton, Oxfordshire, England
Buried:Green Lawn Cemetery
Parents:Charles William Shayler & Charlotte Sherman
Spouse:
Children:2

Ernest Vincent Shayler (October 11, 1868  - June 25, 1947) was the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Nebraska.

Early life and education

Shayler was born on October 11, 1868, in North Moreton, Oxfordshire, England, to Charles William Shayler and Charlotte Sherman. At the age of fifteen, he emigrated with his parents to the United States, and settled in Ohio. He studied at Kenyon College and after graduation in 1893, went on to study for the priesthood at Bexley Hall, from where he graduated in 1896. He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity by Kenyon College in 1919.[1]

Ordained ministry

Shayler was ordained deacon in 1893, and priest on November 10, 1897, by Bishop Boyd Vincent of Southern Ohio. He served as assistant at Trinity Church in Columbus, Ohio between 1893 and 1894, and then became deacon-in-charge, and afterward rector, of Calvary Church in Sandusky, Ohio. In 1900, he then became rector of Grace Church in Oak Park, Illinois, and in 1909, he transferred to Seattle to serve as rector of St Mark's Church.[2] During the First World War, he was a civilian chaplain at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.

Episcopacy

Shayler was elected Bishop of Nebraska in May 1919 on the second ballot.[3] He was consecrated on September 11, 1919, by Bishop Frederick W. Keator of Olympia. He remained in office until 1938. Shayler died on June 25, 1947, at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. 1928. SHAYLER, Ernest Vincent. Who's Who in America . 15. 1881.
  2. 1920. Nebraska . The Living Church Annual and Churchman's Almanac . 74.
  3. Tan Creti, M. J. (2014). The Great Crowd: A Love Story About a Large Urban Parish, p. 137. Xlibris US. .
  4. 6 July 1947. Bishop Shayler Dies. . 115. 1. 5.