William Jones Boone (son)

The Rt. Rev. William Jones Boone

William Jones Boone (17 May 1846 – 5 October 1891) was the fourth Anglican missionary bishop of Shanghai. Boone was born in Shanghai, son of and namesake of William Jones Boone. He studied at Princeton University and attended Virginia Theological Seminary prior to his ordination to the diaconate in Petersburg, Virginia in 1868. He was consecrated Bishop of Shanghai on 28 October 1884.

Consecrators[]

• Channing Moore Williams
• Charles Perry Scott
• George Evans Moule

Boone was the 135th bishop consecrated for the Episcopal Church.

Bibliography[]

• Correspondence in Connection with the Protest against the Consecration of Rev. W. J. Boone as Missionary Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in China. Also Letters Referring to the Wretched Management of the Mission (1885)

See also[]

• Protestant missions in China 1807-1953

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