William Morris Barker

{{Short description|American bishop}}

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| type = Bishop

| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = William Morris Barker

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| title = Missionary Bishop of Olympia

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| church = Episcopal Church

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| see = Olympia

| elected = October 22, 1892

| term = 1894–1901

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| predecessor = John A. Paddock

| successor = Frederick W. Keator

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| other_post = Missionary Bishop of Western Colorado (1893–1894)

| ordination = February 15, 1880 (priest)

| ordained_by = William Croswell Doane

| consecration = October 22, 1892

| consecrated_by = Benjamin Wistar Morris

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1854|05|12}}

| birth_place = Towanda, Pennsylvania, United States

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1901|02|21|1854|05|12}}

| death_place = Tacoma, Washington, United States

| buried = Tacoma Cemetery, Tacoma, Washington

| nationality = American

| religion = Anglican

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| parents = George R. Barker & Anna E. Morris

| spouse = {{marriage|Laura Pindell Adair|1892}}

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William Morris Barker (May 12, 1854 – February 21, 1901) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia from 1894 to 1901. He also served as bishop of the former Episcopal Diocese of Western Colorado from 1893 to 1894.

==Early life and education==

Barker was born on May 12, 1854, in Towanda, Pennsylvania, to George R. Barker and Anna Ellis Morris. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1873, and Berkeley Divinity School, graduating in 1876. He then taught at Bishop Scott Grammar School in Portland, Oregon, until 1879.{{cite journal |date=1895|title= William Morris Barker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Lg7AQAAMAAJ&dq=William+Morris+Barker+died+1901&pg=PA95|journal=Episcopate in America|volume=|pages=349}}

==Ordained ministry==

Barker was ordained deacon on June 14, 1879, in Holy Trinity Church, Middletown, Connecticut, by Bishop John Williams of Connecticut, and then priest on February 15, 1880, by Bishop William Croswell Doane of Albany. He then served as curate at St John's Church in Troy, New York, from 1879 until 1880 when he moved to Washington, D.C., to become curate at St John's Church. That same year he left St John's to become rector of St Paul's Church. He remained there until 1887 when he accepted the rectorship of St Luke's Church in Baltimore. In 1889 he became President of St Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, and was in charge of St Paul's Church in the same city.{{cite journal |date=1989 |title= William (Morris) Barker |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BnYbAQAAMAAJ&q=William+Morris+Barker+b.+May+12,+1854|journal=The Ancestry of Anthony Morris Johnson|volume=6|pages=2904}} His degree of D.D. was conferred by the Seabury Divinity School in 1892.{{cite wikisource|title=The Biographical Dictionary of America|publication-date=1906|authorlink=Author:Rossiter Johnson|wslink=The Biographical Dictionary of America/Barker, William Morris|pages=212-213|location=Boston|publisher=American Biographical Society|editor-last=Johnson|editor-first=Rossiter}}