Hunley Elebash Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
Hunley Elebash
Honorific Suffix:D.D.
Bishop of East Carolina
Church:Episcopal Church
Diocese:East Carolina
Term:1973–1983
Retired:-->
Predecessor:Tom Wright
Successor:Sidney Sanders
Ordination:March 15, 1951
Ordained By:Frank Juhan
Consecration:October 2, 1968
Consecrated By:John E. Hines
Birth Date:23 July 1923
Birth Place:Pensacola, Florida, United States
Death Place:Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
Buried:Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina)
Parents:Eugene Perrin Elebash, Ann Hunley Agee
Spouse:Maurine Ashton
Children:2
Previous Post:Coadjutor Bishop of East Carolina (1968-1973)

Hunley Agee Elebash (July 23, 1923 – October 20, 1993) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Carolina from 1973 to 1983.

Early life and education

Elebash was born on July 23, 1923, in Pensacola, Florida, the son of Eugene Perrin Elebash and Ann Hunley Agee. He was educated at Pensacola High School. He later studied at and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in 1944.[1] He married Maurine Ashton on November 2, 1946, and together had a son and a daughter±. In 1950 he also graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity from the University of the South.[2]

Ordained ministry

Elebash was ordained deacon on June 23, 1950, and priest on March 15, 1951, by Bishop Frank Juhan of Florida at St John's Cathedral, Jacksonville, Florida.[3] He served as assistant priest at St Mark's Church in Jacksonville, Florida, from 1950 to 1953 before becoming rector of St Catherine's Church in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953. In 1957 he became rector of St John's Church in Wilmington, North Carolina, a post he acquired on January 15, 1957.[4] In 1964 he left St John's and became the executive secretary of the Diocese of East Carolina.[5]

Bishop

In 1968, Elebash was elected Coadjutor Bishop of East Carolina and was consecrated on October 2, 1968, at St James' Church in Wilmington, North Carolina, by Presiding Bishop John E. Hines.[6] [7] He succeeded as diocesan in 1973 and retired in August 1983.

References

Notes and References

  1. 1975 . Elebash, Hunley Agee. Who's Who in Religion . 1. 164.
  2. Fish, C. S. . 1953 . Elebash, Hunley Agee. Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Episcopal Church . 108.
  3. 8 April 1951 . Ordinations . . 122. 14 . 16.
  4. 6 January 1957 . Appointments Accepted. . 134. 21.
  5. Marquis Who's Who (1976). Who's who in the South and Southwest, p. 226. Marquis Who's Who, Berkeley Heights, NJ. .
  6. 6 October 1968 . Elections & Consecrations . . 157. 5.
  7. https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=69-2 "Presiding Bishop to Ordain Reverends Wolf and Elebash"