Robert L. DeWitt

Robert Lionne DeWitt (died November 21, 2003) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, serving as diocesan from 1964 to 1973. He became known for fighting against the Vietnam War and racism, as well as working for social justice and the ordination of women as priests.

DeWitt was born and raised in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Amherst College awarded him a bachelor's degree in 1937, and he graduated from Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, in 1940. He later received honorary degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School, Haverford College, LaSalle University, Lincoln University, Philadelphia Divinity School, Temple University and the Virginia Theological Seminary, The City of Philadelphia awarded him its Human Rights award in 1973.

He was ordained a priest in Massachusetts and served in the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan before moving to Pennsylvania. Presiding Bishop Arthur C. Lichtenberger, bishop Angus Dun of Washington, D.C., and Norman Nash of Massachusetts participated in his consecreation as suffragan bishop of Michigan. In 1964, Rt.Rev. DeWitt transferred to the Diocese of Pennsylvania, after the diocesan convention elected him to become the youngest man to serve as bishop. He began as coadjutor to bishop J. Gillespie Armstrong, who unexpectedly died within a month.

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