Allen W. Brown
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| name = Allen Webster Brown
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| title = Bishop of Albany
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| term = 1961–1974
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| predecessor = Frederick L. Barry
| successor = Wilbur Hogg
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| ordination = September 21, 1934
| ordained_by = G. Ashton Oldham
| consecration = February 21, 1959
| consecrated_by = Arthur C. Lichtenberger
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| birth_place = La Fargeville, New York, United States
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| death_place = Massillon, Ohio, United States
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| parents = Nicholas H. Brown & Edith Haller
| spouse = Helen Ruth Belshaw (m. July 5, 1930)
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| previous_post = Suffragan Bishop of Albany (1959-1961)
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Allen Webster Brown (July 22, 1908 - January 19, 1990) was the fifth Bishop of Albany in the United States from 1961 to 1974, during turbulent times from the 1960s to the drafting of the new Book of Common Prayer.
Early life
Brown graduated from the Philadelphia Divinity School with his degree in divinity.{{cite news |title=Allen W. Brown, Bishop, 81 |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D61738F937A15752C0A966958260 |work=The New York Times |date=January 24, 1990 |accessdate=7 February 2009 }} He was ordained a priest in 1934. He worked at several parishes in the diocese of Albany in the 1940s, including in Hudson and Copake Falls,{{cite web |url=http://stjohnw.org/static_docs/history.html |title=History of St John in the Wilderness |accessdate=2009-02-07 |publisher=St. John in the Wilderness |date= }} before he became Dean of the Cathedral of All Saints{{cite web |url=http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/misc/demille_barry1962.html |title=The Episcopate of Frederick Barry |accessdate=2009-02-07 |work=Project Canterbury |publisher=Albany: Diocesan Book Store |year=1962 }} He was married to the former Helen Belshaw.
Work as Bishop
Brown was elected Suffragan Bishop of Albany in October 1958, to assist the incumbent, Frederick L. Barry, Bishop of Albany.{{cite web |url=http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org/about/history.html |title=Episcopal Diocese of Albany - Our History |accessdate=2009-02-07 |publisher=Episcopal Diocese of Albany |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060422074058/http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org/about/history.html |archive-date=2006-04-22 |url-status=dead }} He was consecrated on February 22, 1959, at St. John's Church, Ogdensburg, by Arthur C. Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop. In 1960, Barry died in a hospital after some time in ill health, and the see was left vacant. Brown was elected and enthroned as diocesan bishop in 1961. In 1963, he requested the election of a new Suffragan bishop; Charles Bowen Persell Jr., his only close competitor in the 1958 race, was thereafter elected.
Brown travelled widely though the 19-county diocese to confirm parishioners, to ordain priests, and to preach.[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/history_of_the_memorial_church_of_all_saints_twilight_park_haines_falls.htm Ancestry.com website Page for Memorial Church of All Saints in Hainesville, NY]. Retrieved January 9, 2009. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081212042724/http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nygreen2/history_of_the_memorial_church_of_all_saints_twilight_park_haines_falls.htm |date=December 12, 2008 }}{{cite web |url=http://saintandrewscotia.org/ministries/parish-ministry/centennial/history0/ |title=Our History – St. Andrew's Episcopal Church - Scotia, NY |accessdate=2009-02-07 |publisher=St. Andrew's Episcopal Church |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404133723/http://saintandrewscotia.org/ministries/parish-ministry/centennial/history0/ |archive-date=2009-04-04 |url-status=dead }}
He retired as Bishop of Albany in 1974, and died in 1990 at the age of 81.
See also
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References
External links
- [http://www.cathedralofallsaints.org Cathedral of All Saints web site]
- [http://www.albanyepiscopaldiocese.org Episcopal Diocese of Albany official web site]
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Category:Anglo-Catholic bishops
Category:Religious leaders from Albany, New York
Category:American Anglo-Catholics
Category:20th-century American Episcopal priests