The Right Reverend Wilbur Emory Hogg (1916 - May 10, 1986[1]) was the sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States from 1974 until 1984.
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Hogg was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Brown University and Philadelphia Divinity School.[2] He was ordained a priest in 1941, and served as a curate, and later rector, at St. Mary's in Burlington, New Jersey until 1951.[1] He served from 1951 to 1954 as a chaplain in the United States Army.[1] Hogg was a priest at St. Mary the Virgin in Falmouth, Maine for 14 years, from 1954 to 1968.[1][2]
Hogg was Dean of the Saint Luke's Cathedral in Portland, Maine from 1968 to 1974.[2][3]
Hogg was elected Bishop of Albany in 1974, for which he expressed surprise.[2][4][5][6] He was consecrated and installed that year in the cathedra in the choir at the Cathedral of All Saints, as the 6th Bishop of Albany.[4][6] Erastus Corning 2nd, the mayor of Albany at the time, attended his consecration liturgy.[7]
Hogg was known to be a conservative, evangelistic,[8] anti-feminist and anti-gay rights.[9][10] He banned the LGBT group Integrity from the Cathedral in 1983.[11] However, he ordained some of the first female "perpetual" or permanent deacons in the dicoese.[12]
Hogg was an organizer of a conference on "Evangelical Catholicism" in 1977.[8] In preparation for the Lake Placid Olympics, Hogg "requested funding of the ecumenical religious ministry at the 1980 Olympic Winter Cames at Lake Placid, N.Y."[13] He was also active in ecumenism with the Roman Catholic Church, encouraging the merger of schools of the two different denominations into Doane Stuart School in 1975.[14]
On October 10, 1983, David Standish Ball, then Dean of the Cathedral of All Saints, was elected Bishop coadjutor of Albany.[4][5][15][16] Ball was consecrated in early 1984 under apostolic succession by Presiding Bishop John Maury Allin,[17] bishop David E. Richards, formerly suffragan of Albany and then bishop of the Anglican diocese of Central America, and Hogg.[18] Hogg retired within the year.[4][5] He died two years later, in 1986.[1]
Hogg was married to the former Lota W. Curtis,[1][2] who was born in 1912, and who died in Albany in 1979.[1][19] Lota Hogg was an accomplished music teacher at Middlebury College, having received both bachelor's and master's degrees in musicology from Yale University.[20]
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| Preceded by Allen W. Brown |
6th Bishop of Albany 1974 – 1984 |
Succeeded by David Standish Ball |