William Farrar Weeks
The Right Reverend William Farrar Weeks D.D. | |
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Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont | |
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Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Vermont |
Elected | November 13, 1912 |
In office | 1913–1914 |
Successor | George Y. Bliss |
Orders | |
Ordination | September 25, 1885 by William Henry Augustus Bissell |
Consecration | January 29, 1913 by Arthur C. A. Hall |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | October 23, 1914 Rutland, Vermont, United States | (aged 55)
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | Joseph Seelye Weeks & Mary Elizabeth Farrar |
Spouse | Mary DeForest Wead |
Children | 4 |
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
- ^ "WEEKS, WILLIAM FARRAR". The Episcopal Church Annual: 95. 1914.
- ^ "Weeks, William Farrar". The Living Church Annual and Churchman's Almanac: 91. 1916.
- ^ "William Farrar Weeks". Obituary Record of Donors and Alumni of Williams College: 252. 1911.
- ^ "Death of Bishop Weeks". The Living Church. 51: 899. 31 October 1914.
- Williams College, Obituary Record of the Alumni (1915), pp. 251–252.