Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
Theodore DuBose Bratton | |
Honorific-Suffix: | D.D. |
Bishop of Mississippi | |
Province: | Episcopal Church |
Elected: | 1903 |
Term: | 1903–1938 |
Predecessor: | Hugh Miller Thompson |
Successor: | William Mercer Green |
Ordination: | September 23, 1888 |
Ordained By: | William B. W. Howe |
Consecration: | September 29, 1903 |
Consecrated By: | Thomas Underwood Dudley |
Birth Date: | November 11, 1862 |
Buried: | Cedar Lawn Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi) |
Religion: | Anglican |
Parents: | John Simpson Bratton & Elizabeth Porcher DuBose |
Spouse: | Lucy Beverly Randolph (m. 1888, d. 1905) Ivy Wardlaw Perrin (m. 1906, d. 1938) |
Children: | 2 |
Theodore DuBose Bratton (November 11, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church and the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.
Bratton was born on November 11, 1862, near Winnsboro, South Carolina.[1] [2] He graduated from, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1887 and a bachelor of divinity in 1889.[1]
Bratton was the rector of the Church of the Advent in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1892.[2] He was founder of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood, South Carolina, in 1892–1897.[2] He was a teacher at St Mary's School for Girls in Raleigh, North Carolina, until 1903.[1] [2]
Bratton was appointed as a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church in 1903.[1] [2] In 1929, he was appointed as the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.[3]
Bratton resided in Jackson, Mississippi, where he died on June 26, 1944, at 82.[2]