Clarence Haden

{{short description|Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California}}

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| elected = 1957

| term = 1958-1978

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| predecessor = Archie W. N. Porter

| successor = John Lester Thompson

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| ordination = April 1936 (deacon)
November 1936 (priest)

| ordained_by = Harry Tunis Moore

| consecration = June 14, 1957

| consecrated_by = Henry Knox Sherrill

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| birth_place = Fort Worth, Texas, United States

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| death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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| parents = Clarence R. Haden & Margaret Collins

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| previous_post = Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento (1957)

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Clarence Rupert Haden Jr. (May 30, 1910 – March 11, 2000) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern California, serving from 1958 to 1978.{{cite web|url=https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=86242|title=Leonard Defies Bid 'Confirms' in Tulsa|date=November 6, 1986|author=Patsy Masterman|website=The Archives of the Episcopal Church|accessdate=August 16, 2021}}

==Biography==

Haden was born in Fort Worth, Texas, on May 30, 1910, to Clarence Rupert Haden Sr. and Margaret Collins. He was educated at the public schools in Fort Worth, and then attended Baylor University from where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1931. He also studied at the Union Theological Seminary between 1932 and 1934, and then at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, graduating with a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1936, and awarded a Doctor of Divinity in 1952. {{cite journal |date=1956 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYlFrgCQhiIC&q=Clarence+Rupert+Haden+Jr.+b.+May+30,+1910|title=HADEN, Clarence Rupert, Jr. |journal=The Clerical Directory of the Protestant Episcopal Church |volume=|pages=163}}

Haden was ordained deacon in April 1936 and priest in November 1936 by Bishop Harry Tunis Moore of Dallas. He married Essie Lucilla Jones on February 1, 1935, and together had one daughter.{{cite journal |date=1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WvnRAAAAMAAJ&q=Clarence+Rupert+Haden+Jr.+b.+May+30,+1910|title=HADEN, Clarence Rupert, Jr. |journal=Stowe's Clerical Directory of the Protestant Episcopal Church |volume=|pages=134}} He was in charge of St Barnabas' Church in Denton, Texas, and St Paul's Church in Gainesville, Texas, from 1936 until 1937. He then became rector of St John's Church in Corsicana, Texas, while in 1941 he became rector of St Matthew's Church in Houma, Louisiana. In 1943, he accepted the rectorship of St Paul's Church in New Orleans, and in 1945 he became rector of St Philip's Church in Durham, North Carolina. Between 1951 and 1953 he served as executive director of the Presiding Bishop's commission on laymen's work. He then served previously as dean of Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral (Kansas City, Missouri) between 1953 and 1957.{{cite journal |date=1958 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_D4tAQAAMAAJ&q=Essie+Lucilla+Jones|title=Clarence Rupert Haden Jr. |journal=The Episcopal Church Annual |volume=|pages=414}}

In 1957 Haden was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Sacramento, and was thus consecrated on June 14, 1957, by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill in Trinity Cathedral. He succeeded as diocesan bishop on January 1, 1958, and remained in office until his retirement in 1978.{{cite journal |date=June 30, 1957|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lHDkAAAAMAAJ&dq=clarence+r+haden+1957+sherrill&pg=RA4-PA10|title=Rev. C. R. Haden Consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of Sacramento|journal=The Living Church|volume=134|pages=9}} On April 22, 1961, the name of the diocese was changed to the Diocese of Northern California.

He died on March 11, 2000, in Charleston, South Carolina.[https://episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/the_living_church/TLCarticle.pl?volume=220&issue=17&article_id=25 "Obituary -- Clarence Repert Haden, Jr."], The Living Church, April 23, 2000. Retrieved on October 24, 2023.