Theodore Nevin Morrison
| Right Reverend Theodore Nevin Morrison, D.D., LL.D. |
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| III Bishop of Iowa | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Iowa |
| In office | February 22, 1899 - December 27, 1929 |
| Predecessor | William Stevens Perry |
| Successor | Harry Sherman Longley |
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| Ordination | February 19, 1876 |
| Consecration | February 22, 1899 by Rt. Rev. William Edward McLaren |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 18, 1850 Ottawa, Illinois |
| Died | December 27, 1929 (aged 79) Davenport, Iowa |
Theodore Nevin Morrison (February 18, 1850 – December 27, 1929) was a 20th-century bishop in the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. He was Bishop of Iowa from 1898 to 1929.
Theodore Morrison was born in Ottawa, Illinois to the Rev. Theodore Nevin Morrison, Sr. and Anna Eliza (Howland) Morrison. He received a bachelor's degree in 1870 from Illinois College at Jacksonville, and studied for the priesthood at General Theological Seminary in New York City. He was made a Doctor of Divinity by Illinois College in 1895, and a Doctor of Sacred Theology by Western Theological Seminary in 1905.
Morrison was ordained a deacon in July 1873 and served his first charge in Pekin, Illinois. He was ordained a priest on February 19, 1876 and served as rector of the Church of the Ascension in Chicago from 1876 to 1899 when he was elected bishop. He married Sarah Buck Swazey, whose father was an Episcopal priest in Chicago, on October 28, 1879.
Rev. Morrison was elected the third Bishop of Iowa on November 30, 1898. He was consecrated bishop on February 22, 1899 by Bishops William Edward McLaren, George Franklin Seymour and William David Walker. He was the 190th Episcopal bishop consecrated in the United States. He served the diocese as its bishop for 30 years. Bishop Morrison was from the High Church faction within the Episcopal Church. He was quoted as saying, “I have no hesitation saying that I wish we had at the beginning taken the name of the American Catholic Church. I love the word Catholic.”
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