Bradford Hastings
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| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = William Bradford Turner Hastings
| honorific_suffix = D.D.
| title = Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut
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| diocese = Connecticut
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| elected = May 16, 1981
| term = 1981–1986
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| ordination = May 1944
| ordained_by = William Scarlett
| consecration = October 23, 1981
| consecrated_by = John Allin
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|12|13}}
| birth_place = Garden City, New York, United States
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1992|12|02|1919|12|13}}
| death_place = Little Compton, Rhode Island, United States
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| parents = Alfred Abbott Hastings & Dorothy Quincy Turner
| spouse = Virginia Floyd
| children = 4
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William Bradford Turner Hastings (December 13, 1919 - December 2, 1992) was suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from his election in 1981 until his retirement in 1986.{{cite news |date=December 3, 1992 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/03/obituaries/w-bradford-hastings-episcopal-bishop-72.html |title=W. Bradford Hastings, Episcopal Bishop, 72 |newspaper=The New York Times }}
Early life and education
Hastings was born on December 13, 1919, in Garden City, New York, the son of the Reverend Alfred Abbott Hastings and Dorothy Quincy Turner. He was educated at the Trinity-Pawling School, before studying at the Union College from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1941. On July 31, 1942, he married Virginia Floyd and together had four children. He then enrolled at the Virginia Theological Seminary from where he earned his Bachelor of Divinity in 1943.{{cite journal |author=Fish, C.S. |date=19 April 1959 |title=Hastings, Bradford Turner Hastings|journal=Stowe's Clerical Directory of the American Episcopal Church |pages=158}}
Ordained ministry
Hastings was ordained deacon on September 26, 1943, in St Paul's Church, Troy, New York, by Bishop G. Ashton Oldham of Albany.{{cite journal |date=17 October 1943 |title=Ordinations|journal=The Living Church |volume=107|issue=16|pages=43}} He was then ordained priest in March 1944 by Bishop William Scarlett of Missouri. Between 1943 and 1946 he served as rector of St Paul's Church in Overland, Missouri. In 1946 he became rector of Trinity Church in Concord, Massachusetts. He then moved to Minnesota to become rector of Christ Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota and in 1954, he became rector of St Luke's Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota.{{cite journal |date=21 March 1954 |title=Appointments Accepted|journal=The Living Church |volume=128|pages=21}} In 1959 he became rector of All Saints Church in Worcester, Massachusetts.{{cite journal |date=19 April 1959 |title=Appointments Accepted|journal=The Living Church |volume=138|pages=15}} Between 1965 and 1981, he served as rector of Christ Church in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Episcopacy
On May 16, 1981, Hastings was elected Suffragan Bishop of Connecticut during a special convention at Christ Church in Hartford, Connecticut.{{cite journal |date=21 June 1981 |title=Connecticut Elects Two Suffragans|journal=The Living Church |volume=182|pages=5}}[https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=81161 "Two Suffragan Bishops Elected in Connecticut"], Episcopal News Service, 21 May 1981. Retrieved on 5 April 2020. He was consecrated on October 23, 1981, in Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Joseph by Presiding Bishop John Allin.[https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=81282 "Two Bishops Suffragan Consecrated in Connecticut"], Episcopal News Service, 28 October 1981. Retrieved on 5 April 2020. He retired in 1986.
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Category:Episcopal Church in Connecticut
Category:20th-century American Episcopal priests
Category:Episcopal bishops of Connecticut
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