Grieg Taber

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Grieg Taber (January 21, 1895 - April 8, 1964) was a prominent Anglo-Catholic priest in the American Episcopal Church during the twentieth century. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at the former St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson (BA) and the former Seabury Divinity School (BD 1919). He was ordained to the diaconate in June 1919 and to the priesthood in December 1919. Initially a priest-educator, Taber was master at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota from 1918 to 1920, and chaplain and instructor in History and Greek at the Trinity-Pawling School (1920–1927).

Taber achieved national prominence as an Anglo-Catholic leader as rector of All Saints Church, Ashmont, Dorchester, Massachusetts (1927–1939) and rector of St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square, from 1939{{cite news |author= |date=July 3, 1939 |title=BOSTONIAN CHOSEN ST. MARY'S RECTOR; The Rev. Grieg Taber Elected by High Episcopal Church |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/07/03/archives/bostonian-chosen-st-marys-rector-the-rev-grieg-taber-elected-by.html |work=The New York Times Archives |page=B15 |quote=The Rev. Grieg Taber, rector of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, Boston...}} until his death in 1964. He was a trustee of St. Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women, treasurer-general of the American Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament from 1953 to 1963, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1940.

According to his obituary in the New York Times, Taber was a bachelor with a love of music who died of a heart attack at the Metropolitan Opera during Giacomo Puccini's Tosca.{{cite news |author= |date=April 11, 1964 |title=REV. DR. GRIEG TABBR, RECTOR HERE, WAS 69 |work=New York Times}}

He was succeeded by Donald L. Garfield.{{cite web |url=https://www.episcopalarchives.org/cgi-bin/ENS/ENSpress_release.pl?pr_number=XXVII-11 |title=GARFIELD NAMED |author= |date=December 10, 1964 |website=Episcopal Press and News |publisher=The Archives of the Episcopal Church |access-date=30 May 2022 |quote=The parish has been without a rector since the death April 8 of the Rev. Grieg Taber.}}