Alfred Augustin Watson (August 21, 1818 – April 21, 1905) was first bishop of the Diocese of East Carolina in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Biography

Following education at

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, he was ordained to the diaconate by

Benjamin T. Onderdonk Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (July 15, 1791, New York City – April 30, 1861, New York) was the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York from 1830–1861. Early years A member of a prominent Hempstead family, Onderdonk graduated from Colu ...

on November 3, 1844; and to the priesthood by

Levi Silliman Ives Levi Silliman Ives (September 16, 1797 – October 13, 1867) was an American theologian and Episcopal bishop of North Carolina. In 1852, he converted to Roman Catholicism. Ives subsequently became a noted professor at colleges in the New York ...

on May 25, 1845. During the Civil War, he was chaplain to the Second Regiment of North Carolina State troops. At the time of his death, he was the oldest living bishop in the Episcopal Church, and the senior member of General Convention in order of service, having been first elected to the House of Deputies for North Carolina in 1850. He was consecrated on April 17, 1884. Bishop Watson married three times, and was survived by his third wife, Mary C. Watson (née Lord).

References

*Obituary in

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, April 29, 1905, p. 890. 1818 births 1905 deaths 19th-century American Episcopalians Burials at Oakdale Cemetery (Wilmington, North Carolina) Religious leaders from Brooklyn New York University alumni Episcopal bishops of East Carolina 19th-century American clergy {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub