Milton LeGrand Wood III (August 21, 1922 – July 16, 2015) was a bishop

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in the

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from 1967 to 1974.

Background

Wood was born in Selma, Alabama, on August 21, 1922, to Milton Wood Sr. and Roberta Hawkins Wood. He attended the University of the South, receiving his bachelor's degree and later his

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, graduating in 1945. Bishop Carpenter of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama ordained him as a deacon on November 18, 1945, in St. John's Episcopal Church (Montgomery, Alabama), and later as a priest on August 24, 1946. In 1949, Milton Wood married Ann Scott. In 1963, Bishop Randolph Royall Claiborne Jr. of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta called Father Wood to serve as Canon to the Ordinary. He also served as

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of All Saints' Church, Atlanta, Georgia for eight years, having also served at the Appleton Home in

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. In 1967 he was elected bishop

to assist Bishop Claiborne. He served in that capacity until 1974 when he was called to New York City to serve as the executive for administration at the Episcopal Church Center. He retired in 1984 and died in 2015 at Montgomery, Alabama at the age of 92.RIP: Former Diocese of Atlanta Bishop Suffragan Milton LeGrand Wood
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Consecrators

* John Elbridge Hines, 22nd presiding bishop of the

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* Charles C. J. Carpenter, 6th bishop of Alabama * Randolph Royall Claiborne Jr., 5th bishop of Atlanta N.B.: 625th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church.

References

Atlanta Diocese Centennial History
page on Bishop Wood. * ''The Episcopal Church Annual''. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wood, Milton Legrand III 1922 births 2015 deaths People from Selma, Alabama 20th-century American Episcopalians Episcopal bishops of Atlanta