William Edmond Armitage
The Right Reverend William Edmond Armitage | |
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Bishop of Wisconsin | |
Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Wisconsin |
Elected | June 7, 1866 |
In office | 1870-1873 |
Predecessor | Jackson Kemper |
Successor | Edward R. Welles |
Orders | |
Ordination | September 27, 1854 by George Burgess |
Consecration | December 6, 1866 by Jackson Kemper |
Personal details | |
Born | New York City, New York, United States | September 6, 1830
Died | December 7, 1873 New York City, New York, United States | (aged 43)
Buried | Elmwood Cemetery |
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Spouse | Charlotte Louisa Lambard |
Children | 3 |
Previous post(s) | Assistant Bishop of Wisconsin (1866-1870) |
Alma mater | Columbia University |
William Edmond Armitage (September 6, 1830 – December 7, 1873) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Born in New York City, Armitage graduated from Columbia College in 1849 and the General Theological Seminary in 1852. He was ordained deacon at the Church of the Transfiguration, New York. on June 27, 1852. by Bishop Carleton Chase and priest at St. Mark's, Augusta, Maine on September 27, 1854, by Bishop George Burgess.
Armitage's first ministry position was as assistant at St. John's Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was then called to St. Mark's Augusta, Maine, until called to be rector of St. John's Detroit, Michigan, where he was when elected to the episcopate. He received his doctorate in divinity from Columbia College in 1866.
Armitage was consecrated at St. John's Detroit on December 6, 1866, by bishops Kemper, McCoskry, H. W. Lee, Whipple, J. C. Talbot, Coxe, Clarkson, Kerfoot, and Cummins, together with Bishop Cronyn, the Bishop of Huron, Canada. He was coadjutor bishop to Jackson Kemper (1866–1870) and on the death of Kemper served as the second Bishop of Wisconsin (1870–1873).
Armitage died at St. Luke's Hospital in New York on December 7, 1873, and his remains are buried in Detroit, Michigan, at Elmwood Cemetery.
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