William Morris Barker Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific Prefix:The Right Reverend
William Morris Barker
Missionary Bishop of Olympia
Church:Episcopal Church
Elected:October 22, 1892
Term:1894–1901
Retired:-->
Predecessor:John A. Paddock
Successor:Frederick W. Keator
Other Post:Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado (1893–1894)
Ordination:February 15, 1880 (priest)
Ordained By:William Croswell Doane
Consecration:October 22, 1892
Consecrated By:Benjamin Wistar Morris
Birth Date:12 May 1854
Birth Place:Towanda, Pennsylvania, United States
Death Place:Tacoma, Washington, United States
Buried:Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington
Parents:George R. Barker & Anna E. Morris

William Morris Barker (May 12, 1854 – February 21, 1901) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia from 1894 to 1901. He also served as bishop of the former Episcopal Diocese of Western Colorado from 1893 to 1894.

Early life and education

Barker was born on May 12, 1854, in Towanda, Pennsylvania, to George R. Barker and Anna Ellis Morris. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1873, and Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in 1876. He then taught at Bishop Scott Grammar School in Portland, Oregon, until 1879.[1]

Ordained ministry

Barker was ordained deacon on June 14, 1879, in Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, Connecticut, by Bishop John Williams of Connecticut, and then priest on February 15, 1880, by Bishop William Croswell Doane of Albany. He then served as curate at St John's Church in Troy, New York, from 1879 until 1880 when he moved to Washington, D.C., to become curate at St John's Church. That same year he left St John's to become rector of St Paul's Church. He remained there until 1887 when he accepted the rectorship of St Luke's Church in Baltimore. In 1889 he became President of St Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, and was in charge of St Paul's Church in the same city.[2]

Episcopacy

William Morris Barker was elected by the House of Bishops as Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado on October 22, 1892, and consecrated on January 25, 1893, at St Paul's Church in Duluth, Minnesota.[3] In 1894 he was elected as Missionary Bishop of Olympia where he remained until his death.[4]

He died February 21,[5] 1901.

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Notes and References

  1. 1895. William Morris Barker. Episcopate in America. 349.
  2. 1989 . William (Morris) Barker . The Ancestry of Anthony Morris Johnson. 6. 2904.
  3. 1896. Second Day. Constitution and Canons for the Government the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. 13.
  4. The Living Church Annual 1944, pgs. 380-381
  5. The Living Church Annual 1944, pgs. 380-381