William Thomas Manning

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William Thomas Manning (born May 12, 1866, in Northampton; died November 18, 1949 in New York) was an U.S. Episcopal bishop of New York.

Mannings family moved to the United States in 1882, where he entered the University of the South (Sewanee, Tennessee) in 1888, where he worked under William Porcher Du Bose and made Bachelor of Divinity in 1894.

Manning became deacon on December 12, 1889, and priest on December 12, 1891.

Further stations were:

• Rector of Trinity Church, Redlands, California (1891-1893)
• Professor of Systematic Divinity at the School of Theology of the University of the South (1893-1895)
• Rector of St. John's Church, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania (1896-1898)
• Rector of Christ Church, Nashville (1898-1903)
• Vicar of St. Agnes', New York (1903-1904)
• Assistant rector of Trinity Church, New York (1904-1908)
• Rector of Trinity Church, New York (1908-1921)
• Bishop of New York (May 11, 1921-December 31, 1946)

During World War One he served as a volunteer chaplain at Camp Upton. Bishop Manning was a chevalier of the Legion of Honor of France and an officer of the Order of the Crown of Belgium.[1] From 1922 to 1924 he was much in the public eye on account of controversies with the Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, because of his radicalism, and with the Rev. William Norman Guthrie, because of dancing and other innovations at his religious services in St. Mark's in-the-Bouwerie, New York City. He is buried in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.

[edit] External links

• Documents by Manning
• William Thomas Manning at Find A Grave
• Biography

Persondata
NAME	Manning, William Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Episcopal bishop of New York.
DATE OF BIRTH	May 12, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Northampton
DATE OF DEATH	November 18, 1949
PLACE OF DEATH	New York