Episcopal News Service January 30, 2007 William Gillette Weinhauer, fourth Bishop of Western North Carolina, dies at 82
[ENS] The Rt. Rev. William Gillette Weinhauer, fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, died Friday, January 26 in Asheville, North Carolina, his home for the past 34 years. He was 82.
The second son of Nicholas Alfred and Florence Anastasia (Davis) Weinhauer, he was born in New York City December 3, 1924. He attended the public schools of New York and received a B.S. degree from Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, in 1928. He earned three degrees from the General Theological Seminary in New York: a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1952, a Master of Sacred Theology in 1956, and a Doctorate in Theology in 1970.
He also received two honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees, the first from the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1974, and the second from Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, North Carolina, in 1985.
He was ordained a deacon in March 1951 and was priested in October of the same year by the Diocese of Long Island, New York.
From 1951-1956, Weinhauer served several pastorates in the dioceses of Long Island and New
York. From 1956-1960 he was Professor of New Testament at St. Andrew's Theological Seminary, Quezon City, Philippines, and from 1961-1971 he was Professor of New Testament at the General Theological Seminary, New York City. He was elected rector of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, New York, in 1970.
In May 1973, the Diocese of Western North Carolina elected him bishop coadjutor, and he acceded as diocesan bishop in March 1975.
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