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The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America that covers roughly Middle Tennessee.A single diocese spanned the entire state until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee was created; the Diocese of Tennessee was again split in 1985 when the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee was formed. [1]
William Evan Sanders (December 25, 1919 – November 18, 2021) was an American Episcopalian bishop. He was the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee from 1977 to 1985, and first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee from 1985 to 1992.
He served as rector of Christ Church in Nashville, Tennessee. On April 20, 1938, he was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Tennessee and was consecrated on September 20, 1938, by Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker. He succeeded as Bishop of Tennessee on January 5, 1947. He resigned on September 20, 1953, and died on January 28, 1961.
Bishop Otey died in 1863, but the Diocese of Tennessee was unable to elect a new leader until after the war, on September 7, 1865, when it selected Quintard as its second bishop. The bishops and lay leaders of the national Episcopal Church confirmed his election the next month at the General Convention in Philadelphia.
Thomas Frank Gailor (September 17, 1856 – October 3, 1935) was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee in the Episcopal Church and served from 1898 to 1935. Career [ edit ]
He was consecrated on March 2, 1955, in St. Paul's Church, Chattanooga, Tennessee by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. On April 19, 1961, he was elected as Coadjutor Bishop of Tennessee (successor-in-waiting to the Diocesan) and on October 13 of the same year became the seventh diocesan bishop, upon the death of Bishop Theodore N. Barth .
In the mid-1840s, Humes began studying under the authority of Tennessee's Episcopal Bishop James Otey (1800–1863). He initially served as Sunday lay reader for Knoxville's St. John's Episcopal Church congregation, and after being ordained a deacon in March 1845, he served as assistant to the church's rector. In July 1845, Humes was ordained a ...
Between 1957 and 1960, he served as priest-in-charge of the Church of Our Saviour in Gallatin, Tennessee, and the Church of the Epiphany in Lebanon, Tennessee, both near Nashville. In 1960 he became chaplain to Episcopal students at Georgia Tech and Agnes Scott College, both in the metropolitan Atlanta area.