Wilbur Hogg
The Right Reverend Wilbur Emory Hogg D.D. | |
|---|---|
| Bishop of Albany | |
| Church | Episcopal Church |
| Diocese | Albany |
| In office | 1974–1984 |
| Predecessor | Allen W. Brown |
| Successor | David Ball |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | December 1941 by Wallace John Gardner |
| Consecration | March 9, 1974 by John E. Hines |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 28, 1916 |
| Died | May 10, 1986 (aged 69) Portland, Maine, United States |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Wilbur Emory Hogg & Ida May Spath |
| Spouse | Lota Winchell Curtiss (m. Sept. 6, 1947) |
Wilbur Emory Hogg Jr (August 28, 1916 – May 10, 1986[1]) was the sixth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States from 1974 until 1984.
Early life
[edit]Hogg was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and attended Brown University and Philadelphia Divinity School.[2] He was ordained a priest in 1941, and served as a curate, and later rector, at St. Mary's in Burlington, New Jersey until 1951.[1] He served from 1951 to 1954 as a chaplain in the United States Army.[1] Hogg was a priest at St. Mary the Virgin in Falmouth, Maine for 14 years, from 1954 to 1968.[1][2]
Hogg was Dean of the Saint Luke's Cathedral in Portland, Maine from 1968 to 1974.[2][3]
Bishop of Albany
[edit]Hogg was elected Bishop of Albany in 1974, for which he expressed surprise.[2][4][5][6] He was consecrated and installed that year in the cathedra in the choir at the Cathedral of All Saints, as the 6th Bishop of Albany.[4][6] Erastus Corning 2nd, the mayor of Albany at the time, attended his consecration liturgy.[7]
Hogg was known to be a conservative, evangelistic,[8] anti-feminist and anti-gay rights.[9][10] He banned the LGBT group Integrity from the Cathedral in 1983.[11] However, he ordained some of the first female "perpetual" or permanent deacons in the diocese.[12]
Hogg was an organizer of a conference on "Evangelical Catholicism" in 1977.[8] In preparation for the Lake Placid Olympics, Hogg "requested funding of the ecumenical religious ministry at the 1980 Olympic Winter Cames at Lake Placid, N.Y."[13] He was also active in ecumenism with the Roman Catholic Church, encouraging the merger of schools of the two different denominations into Doane Stuart School in 1975.[14]
On October 10, 1983, David Ball, then Dean of the Cathedral of All Saints, was elected Bishop coadjutor of Albany.[4][5][15][16] Ball was consecrated in early 1984 under apostolic succession by Presiding Bishop John Maury Allin,[17] bishop David E. Richards, formerly suffragan of Albany and then bishop of the Anglican diocese of Central America, and Hogg.[18] Hogg retired within the year.[4][5] He died two years later, in 1986.[1]
Lota Hogg
[edit]Hogg was married to the former Lota W. Curtis,[1][2] who was born in 1912, and who died in Albany in 1979.[1][19] Lota Hogg was an accomplished music teacher at Middlebury College, having received both bachelor's and master's degrees in musicology from Yale University.[20]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g "Rev. Wilbur Hogg Dies at 69; Ex-Albany Episcopal Bishop", UPI, found at New York Times, May 12, 1986, see New York Times Obituary. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ a b c d e "Will Head Albany Episcopal Diocese", Associated Press story, found in Palladium-Times, October 24, 1973, see Fulton History website. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Obituary of his Secretary, "Barbara Ann McGovern, 1999-04-15," found at Obituary Central website[usurped]. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ a b c d History of the Albany Episcopal Diocese Archived 2011-09-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ a b c The Episcopal Church Annual (2004 Morehouse Publishing), ISBN 0-8192-1970-3, found at Google Books website. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ a b Another source states the year as 1973, but this is probably mistaken; see St. Luke's Saranac Lake website History page Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Albany Institute collections website Papers of Erastus Corning Archived 2010-12-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ a b Episcopal Church archives. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Virtue Online website. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Stand Firm in Faith website Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Louie Crew, "Where Are We Going?" First appeared in Integer 42 (1983): 6-7. Found at Rutgers U. website Archived 2007-11-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ St. Andrews's Scotia website History page Archived 2009-04-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Episcopal News Service. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ Heart magazine, December 2008, p. 14, found at [www.rscj.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_download/gid,285/Itemid,9/ - RSCJ website] (pdf document). Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ "Bishop-Elect Chosen", Associated Press story, found in Palladium Times, October 11, 1983, see Fulton History website. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ "Western Massachusetts, Albany Elect Bishops," press release, found at Episcopal News Service archives. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ See List of Presiding Bishops in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
- ^ San Joaquin Apostolic Succession datapgb[permanent dead link]
- ^ Hodge's World website. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
- ^ "Festival of Praise Planned for June," Altamont Enterprise, 1975, n.d., found at Historic Newspapers website Archived 2011-07-26 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved January 6, 2009.