Charles Chapman Grafton
| Charles Chapman Grafton | |
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| II Bishop of Fond du Lac | |
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| Province | The Episcopal Church |
| Diocese | Fond du Lac |
| Installed | 1888 |
| Term ended | 1912 |
| Predecessor | John Henry Hobart Brown |
| Successor | Reginald Heber Weller |
| Orders | |
| Consecration | April 25, 1888 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 12, 1830 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Died | August 30, 1912 (age 82) Fond du Lac, Wisconsin |
| Buried | St. Paul's Cathedral |
Charles Chapman Grafton (April 12, 1830 – August 30, 1912) was the second Bishop of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Born on April 12, 1830, in Boston, Massachusetts, he became an ardent supporter of the Oxford Movement, an affiliation of High Church Anglicans that led to Anglo-Catholicism in The Episcopal Church.
A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover in 1846, in 1853 Grafton graduated from Harvard University with a degree in law, but he found himself drawn toward the ordained ministry. Grafton studied theology under William Whittingham, Bishop of Maryland, and was ordained deacon on Dec. 23, 1855.
Grafton began his ordained ministry as assistant at Reisterstown, Maryland. On May 30, 1858, he was ordained priest. He then served as curate at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Baltimore and chaplain of the deaconesses of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
At the close of the Civil War, Grafton went to Britain. With Richard Meux Benson and Simeon Wilberforce O'Neill he co-founded the Society of St. John the Evangelist (SSJE), also known as the Cowley Fathers.
Grafton returned to the United States and, in 1872, became fourth rector of the Church of the Advent in Boston. A jurisdictional dispute concerning Grafton's overseas religious superior led to his withdrawal from the SSJE. Grafton also helped establish the American Congregation of Saint Benedict (now known as the Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved); and in 1888 he was a founder of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity, along with Mother Ruth Margaret.
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