Vedder Van Dyck

{{Short description|American bishop}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| type = Bishop

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| honorific-suffix = D.D., S.T.D.

| name = Vedder Van Dyck

| title = Bishop of Vermont

| image = Vedder Van Dyck.jpg

| alt =

| caption =

| church = Episcopal Church

| archdiocese =

| diocese = Vermont

| see =

| elected = November 12, 1935

| term = 1936–1960

| predecessor = Samuel B. Booth

| successor = Harvey Butterfield

| ordination = 1915

| ordained_by = Edwin Stevens Lines

| consecration = February 24, 1936

| consecrated_by = James De Wolf Perry

| rank =

| birth_date = July 18, 1889

| birth_place = Bayonne, New Jersey, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|08|02|1889|07|18}}

| death_place = Burlington, Vermont, United States

| buried = Rock Point Cemetery, Burlington

| previous_post =

| nationality = American

| religion = Anglican

| spouse = May Estelle Ketcham

| children = 1

| parents = Vedder Van Dyck & Emily Adams

| alma_mater = Columbia College

}}

Vedder Van Dyck (July 18, 1889 - August 2, 1960) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont.{{cite book |title=Christianity in Vermont: Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington, New England Annual Conference, New England District |isbn=978-1-1558-3472-6 |date=May 7, 2010 |publisher=General Books |last=Michaud |first=John Stephen }}

Biography

A graduate of Columbia College (1918){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gh8ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA339 |title=Catalogue |publisher=Columbia University |page=339 |date=March 9, 1918 |accessdate=February 9, 2014 }} and the General Theological Seminary in New York (1914),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOtJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA101 |title=The General Theological Seminary Catalogue |publisher=Chelsea Square |location=New York |year=1914 |page=101 }} he was consecrated on February 24, 1936.{{cite book |title=The order of service for the consecration of the Reverend Vedder Van Dyck as a bishop in the church of God |year=1936 |oclc=12429135 }} His consecrators were James DeWolf Perry, Henry Knox Sherrill and John T. Dallas.{{cite web |url=http://apostolicsuccession.wordpress.com/successiontv/ |title=Bishops in The Protestant Episcopal Church in the USA (aka The Episcopal Church) |date=26 March 2009 |publisher=Robert G. Eaton |accessdate=February 9, 2014 }} Prior to this, Van Dyck was served Saint Mary's Church in Amityville, New York, where he was ordained as deacon (April 25, 1914), priest (1915), and priest-in-charge and rector (1917–1929).{{cite web |url=http://www.stmarysamityville.org/p/clergy-past-and-present.html |publisher=St. Mary's Church |title=Clergy, Past and Present |accessdate=February 8, 2013 }} He died in office on August 2, 1960, and was succeeded by Harvey D. Butterfield.

He was a Freemason under the jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of New York.{{cite book | last = Denslow | first = William R. | title = 10,000 Famous Freemasons | year = 1957 | publisher = Missouri Lodge of Research | location = Columbia, Missouri, USA}} ([http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_1_A_to_D.htm digital document by phoenixmasonry: vol. 1], [http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_2_E_to_J.htm 2], [http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_3_K_to_P.htm 3], [http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/10,000_famous_freemasons/Volume_4_Q_to_Z.htm 4])

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