Charles Todd Quintard

The Right Reverend Charles Quintard
Bishop of Tennessee
Charles Quintard in about 1860
Church	The Episcopal Church
Diocese	Tennessee
Term ended	February 15, 1898
Predecessor	James Hervey Otey
Successor	Thomas Frank Gailor
Other posts	Physician, Parish priest, Army chaplain, University vice-chancellor
Orders
Ordination	1855 (deacon), 1857 (priest)
Consecration	October 11, 1865 by Francis Fulford, Bishop of Montreal
Personal details
Born	December 22, 1824 Stamford, Connecticut
Died	February 16, 1898 Meridian, Georgia

Charles Todd Quintard (December 22, 1824 – February 15, 1898) was an American physician and clergyman who became the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee and the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South.

He was born in Stamford, Connecticut, to a Huguenot-descended family and attended school in New York City, including medical studies at University Medical College, New York University and Bellevue Hospital, graduating in 1847. Quintard moved to Athens, Georgia, in 1848 to take up a medical practice, then moved to Memphis in 1851 to teach physiology and pathological anatomy at Memphis Medical College. Dr. Quintard's 1854 report on Memphis mortality statistics was covered in the New York Times, including his assessment of the city as being "the first considerable place to be without the range of yellow fe-ver," a boast that was to prove incorrect in the 1870s, when Memphis experienced several yellow fever epidemics.

During this time, Quintard became friends with James Hervey Otey, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, resulting in his decision to give up the medical profession for the priesthood. Quintard studied for holy orders in 1854, was ordained in 1856, and subsequently served as the rector of Calvary Church in Memphis and at the Church of the Advent in Nashville.

A supporter of the Oxford Movement he described himself as a "high churchman" and a "ritualist", identifying with Anglicans who were reviving ritual practices associated, in the popular mind, with Roman Catholicism.