William Farrar Weeks

William Farrar Weeks (February 22, 1859 - October 23, 1914) was coadjutor bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont from 1913 till 1914.

The Right Reverend

William Farrar Weeks

D.D.
Coadjutor Bishop of Vermont
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseVermont
ElectedNovember 13, 1912
In office1913–1914
SuccessorGeorge Y. Bliss
Orders
OrdinationSeptember 25, 1885
by William Henry Augustus Bissell
ConsecrationJanuary 29, 1913
by Arthur C. A. Hall
Personal details
Born(1859-02-22)February 22, 1859
St. Albans, Vermont, United States
DiedOctober 23, 1914(1914-10-23) (aged 55)
Rutland, Vermont, United States
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJoseph Seelye Weeks & Mary Elizabeth Farrar
SpouseMary DeForest Wead
Children4
Alma materWilliams College

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
  1. "WEEKS, WILLIAM FARRAR". The Episcopal Church Annual: 95. 1914.
  2. "Weeks, William Farrar". The Living Church Annual and Churchman's Almanac: 91. 1916.
  3. "William Farrar Weeks". Obituary Record of Donors and Alumni of Williams College: 252. 1911.
  4. "Death of Bishop Weeks". The Living Church. 51: 899. 31 October 1914.
  • Williams College, Obituary Record of the Alumni (1915), pp. 251–252.


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