| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Francis M. Taitt | |
| Honorific Suffix: | D.D., S.T.D., LL.D. |
| Bishop of Pennsylvania | |
| Church: | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | Pennsylvania |
| Term: | 1931–1943 |
| Predecessor: | Thomas J. Garland |
| Successor: | Oliver J. Hart |
| Ordination: | February 2, 1886 |
| Ordained By: | John Scarborough |
| Consecration: | October 4, 1929 |
| Consecrated By: | Thomas J. Garland |
| Birth Date: | 3 January 1862 |
| Birth Place: | Burlington, New Jersey, United States |
| Death Place: | Upland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Buried: | Saint Mary's Church, Roxborough, Pennsylvania |
| Previous Post: | Coadjutor Bishop of Pennsylvania (1929-1931) |
| Religion: | Anglican |
| Parents: | James Monroe Taitt & Elizabeth Ward Conway |
| Alma Mater: | Philadelphia Divinity School |
Francis Marion Taitt (January 3, 1862 - July 17, 1943) was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania in The Episcopal Church and served from 1931 to 1943.
Taitt was born in Burlington, New Jersey, and moved with his family to Philadelphia at age 8. He graduated from Philadelphia Divinity School in 1883. He served for four years as curate of Old St. Peter's Church in central Philadelphia, five and a half years as rector of Old Trinity Church in Philadelphia's Southwark neighborhood,[1] and 37 years as rector of Old St. Paul's Church in Chester, Pennsylvania.[2] On October 4, 1929, he was elected Bishop Coadjustor, and became head of the diocese in 1931 following the death of Bishop Thomas J. Garland.[3] [4] [5] In 1937, he organized a pageant, entitled The Drama of Missions, with 1,300 actors.[6]
On June 24, 1940, Taitt offered the invocation at the opening of the second session of the 1940 Republican National Convention.[7]
Bishop Taitt was hospitalized for abdominal surgery at Crozer Hospital, Upland, Pennsylvania, where he died of pneumonia, on July 17, 1943. His remains were entombed in the crypt of the Episcopal Cathedral, now St. Mary's Church, Roxborough, Philadelphia.[8] [9]