George Nelson Hunt, III

George Nelson Hunt III (born 8 December 1931 in Louisville, Kentucky) was the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island from 1980 to 1994.[1]

Early life, education and family

The son of George Nelson Hunt, Jr., and Jessie Mae Alter Hunt, he attended the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1953. He went on to the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, where he earned his M.Div. degree and was ordained to the ministry in 1956. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale University in 1980 and the University of Rhode Island awarded him an honorary L.H.D. in 1995. In June 1955, he married Barbara Noel Plamp, with whom he had three children.[1]

Career

In 1956, he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Gillette, Wyoming and in 1957, additionally, he became as priest in charge of St. John's Church in Upton, Wyoming, adding in 1959 the additional responsibilities of priest in charge of St. Francis Church, Reno Junction, Wyoming. In 1960, he was appointed assistant priest at St. Paul's Church in Oakland, California and was in that post, when in 1962 he was called to be rector of St. Alban's Church, Worland, Wyoming. Remaining there until 1965, he then became rector of St Anselm's Church in Lafayette, California and in 1970, rector of St. Paul's Church, Salinas, California. From 1975 to 1980, he served as executive officer of the Episcopal Diocese of California before being consecrated in 1980 as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island. In 1994, he left Rhode Island to serve as interim bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii in 1995-1996 and then retired in 1996.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Marquis Who's Who, 2013
Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by
Frederick H. Belden
11th Bishop of Rhode Island
1980 – 1994
Succeeded by
Geralyn Wolf
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