William Farrar Weeks Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
William Farrar Weeks
Honorific Suffix:D.D.
Elected:November 13, 1912
Term:1913–1914
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Successor:George Y. Bliss
Ordination:September 25, 1885
Ordained By:William Henry Augustus Bissell
Consecration:January 29, 1913
Consecrated By:Arthur C. A. Hall
Birth Date:22 February 1859
Birth Place:St. Albans, Vermont, United States
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Nationality:American
Parents:Joseph Seelye Weeks & Mary Elizabeth Farrar
Spouse:Mary DeForest Wead
Children:4
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Alma Mater:Williams College

William Farrar Weeks (February 22, 1859 - October 23, 1914) was coadjutor bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont from 1913 till 1914.

Early life and education

Weeks was born on February 22, 1859, in St. Albans, Vermont, the son of Joseph Seelye Weeks and Mary Elizabeth Farrar. He was educated at St. Albans High School and graduated in 1877.[1] He later studied at Williams College, from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1881. He enrolled at the General Theological Seminary, and graduated in 1884.[2]

Ordained ministry

Weeks was ordained deacon at St. Albans on October, 1884, and then priest on September 29, 1885, in St Matthew's Church, Enosburg Falls, Vermont, by Bishop William Henry Augustus Bissell of Vermont. After ordination he became rector of St Matthew's, the church in which he was ordained priest, and in 1889, became rector of St Thomas' Church in Brandon, Vermont. In 1894, he left for Shelburne, Vermont, to serve as rector of Trinity Church.[3]

Bishop

On November 13, 1912, Weeks was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont and was consecrated on January 29, 1913, at Burlington by Bishop Arthur C. A. Hall of Vermont. He died the following year on October 23 as a result of a prolonged illness of several months.[4]

References

Notes and References

  1. 1914. WEEKS, WILLIAM FARRAR. The Episcopal Church Annual . 95.
  2. 1916. Weeks, William Farrar. The Living Church Annual and Churchman's Almanac . 91.
  3. 1911. William Farrar Weeks . Obituary Record of Donors and Alumni of Williams College . 252.
  4. 31 October 1914. Death of Bishop Weeks. . 51. 899.