Wallace E. Conkling
   HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Wallace E. Conkling
OR:
Wallace E. Conkling on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Wallace Edmonds Conkling (October 25, 1896 – August 27, 1979) was the seventh bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago and served from 1941 to 1953.


Education and early career

Conkling was born October 25, 1896, in Matteawan (now part of
Beacon, New York Beacon is a city located in Dutchess County, New York, United States. The 2020 census placed the city total population at 13,769. Beacon is part of the Poughkeepsie– Newburgh– Middletown, New York Metropolitan Statistical Area as we ...
), the son of Charles Edmonds Conkling and Susan May Bright. He received his undergraduate degree from Williams College, his divinity degree from Philadelphia Divinity School, and a Master's from Oxford. He taught in seminaries before becoming rector of St Luke's Church in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his only extended parish ministry before being elected Bishop of Chicago.obituary, Stuart (Florida) News, August 29, 1979


His episcopate

During his 13 years as Bishop of Chicago, Conkling worked hard to build missions and to reduce the diocese's indebtedness. Illness forced him to retire in 1953. He was a bishop associate of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.


Retirement years

After his retirement, Bishop Conkling moved with his wife and their two daughters to Vero Beach, Florida. His wife, the former Constance Lilian Sowby, was born in 1898 in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England and died March 9, 1969, in Vero Beach. Both were interred on the grounds of All Saints Episcopal Church, Jensen Beach, Florida, where he had served for many years as bishop in residence.


See also

* List of Bishops in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago *
Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States This list consists of the bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, an independent province of the Anglican Communion. This shows the historical succession of the episcopate within this church. Key to chart The number refe ...


References


External links

*
Bibliographic directory
from
Project Canterbury Project Canterbury (sometimes abbreviated as PC) is an online archive of material related to the history of Anglicanism. It was founded by Richard Mammana, Jr. in 1999 with a grant from Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold, and is ho ...
{{DEFAULTSORT:Conkling, Wallace E. People from Beacon, New York People from Vero Beach, Florida Williams College alumni 1896 births 1979 deaths 20th-century American Episcopalians Episcopal bishops of Chicago 20th-century American clergy