Frederic C. Lawrence

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Frederic C. Lawrence (1899–April 16, 1989), was suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1956–68). Frederic's father, William Lawrence, was the seventh bishop of the diocese (1893–1927).

Bishop Lawrence was the grandson of the notable abolishionist Amos Adams Lawrence and a member of the influential Boston Family, founded by his great-great-grandfather and American revolutionary, Samuel Lawrence. And his great-grandfather was the famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence.

[edit] Education and Career

Frederic Cunningham Lawrence became a priest in 1925 after graduating from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he became rector of St. Peter's Church. The Rev. Lawrence was later appointed rector of St. Paul's Church in nearby Brookline.

Rev. Lawrence earned his D.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1937 and was elected Suffragan Bishop in 1956, a position which he held in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts until his retiremenet in 1968. Bishop Lawrence was also active with the Episcopal chaplaincy at Harvard and was a trustee of Milton Academy and the American University of Beirut.

Bishop Lawrences brother, the William Appleton Lawrence was the third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western Massachusetts (1925–41).