Thomas M. Clark Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Most Reverend
Thomas March Clark
12th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Church:Episcopal Church
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Term:1899–1903
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Predecessor:John Williams
Successor:Daniel S. Tuttle
Other Post:Bishop of Rhode Island (1854-1903)
Ordination:November 6, 1836
Ordained By:Alexander Viets Griswold
Consecration:December 6, 1854
Consecrated By:Thomas Church Brownell
Birth Date:4 July 1812
Birth Place:Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States
Death Place:Newport, Rhode Island, United States
Nationality:American
Religion:Anglican
Parents:Thomas March Clark & Rebecca Wheelwright
Spouse:Caroline Howard
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Education:Yale University
Princeton University
Signature:Signature of Thomas March Clark (1812–1903).png

Thomas March Clark (July 4, 1812 – September 7, 1903) was an American Episcopal prelate who served as Bishop of Rhode Island between 1854–1903 and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church between 1899 and 1903.

Biography

Thomas March Clark was born at Newburyport, Massachusetts on July 4, 1812.[1] He graduated at Yale College in 1831, studied theology at Princeton, and was licensed to preach as a Presbyterian in 1835. He became an Episcopalian in the following year, and was rector of Grace Church, Boston, for seven years, afterward holding charges in Philadelphia, Hartford, and Providence. In 1854 he was consecrated Bishop of Rhode Island, and in 1899, on the death of Bishop John Williams, of Connecticut, became Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal church in America. His Reminiscences appeared in 1895; among his other works are Early Discipline and Culture (1852), and Primary Truths of Religion (1869).

He died in Newport, Rhode Island on September 7, 1903, at age 91.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Book: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography . I . James T. White & Company . 445 . 1893 . 2021-04-26 . Google Books.
  2. News: Oldest Bishop Dies Suddenly . . Newport, Rhode Island . 2 . 1903-09-09 . 2021-04-26 . Newspapers.com.