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The Right Rev. J. Gillespie Armstrong, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, was found dead Thurs-day in bed at his Bryn Mawr home. He was 62. Death came only six months
after Bishop Armstrong was installed as pastoral leader of the 120,000 Episcopalians in the
five-county diocese. The attending physician, Dr.Harold J. Robinson, said the Bishop apparently died of a stroke while reading in bed late Wednesday night at his home,419 Garden lane, Bishop Armstrong had a medical history of high blood pressure but had not been ill recently, Dr. Robinson said,returned from tour The Bishop had returned home Wednesday from a three-day tour of Episcopalian seminaries in Virginia, Massachusetts and New York City, a spokesman for the diocese reported. On the tour, he visited seminarians from this area. the Armstrong home Thursday morning found the Bishop dead, a book still clasped in his hand. She notified diocesan authorities. The Bishop's wife, the former Louise McKelvey, was vacationing in Rome. Notified by telephone of her husband's death, Mrs. Armstrong planned to fly back to Philadelphia immediately. Bishop Armstrong's duties and title were automatically assumed by the Right Rev, Robert L. DeWitt, who has been Bishop Coadjutor since April 1, cancels ceremony Bishop DeWitt met Thursday afternoon with diocesan officials after canceling a scheduled ceremony at City Hall where he was to have received a copy of a City Council resolution congratulating him 'on assuming the post of Bishop Coadjutor. The Pennsylvania diocese numbers 194 parishes in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery,Chester and Delaware counties.Bishop Armstrong became the11th Bishop of the 279-year-old diocese in installation ceremonies last Oct. 26 at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, He succeeded the Right Rev, Oliver J. Hart, who retired last July.
Born in Warren, Pa., Joseph Gillespie Armstrong, 3d, joined the Army when he was 16 and
drove ambulances in Italy and France in the First World War.After the war, he returned to complete his education, which was interrupted again by a three-year hitch in the Marines. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York. Ordained a deacon in April, 1931, he became a priest in November of the same year. His first pastoral assignment was as rector of Severn parish, Waterbury, Md. In 1935, he began a five-year period as rector of Christ Church, Georgetown,D. C.
CAME TO STATE IN '40
Bishop Armstrong came to the Diocese of Pennsylvania in1940 as rector of St. Mary's Church, Ardmore. Two years later, he joined the Navy as a chaplain, seeing service aboard the U.S.S. Nevada in the Pacific as well as in the European Theater of Operations. Leaving wartime service with the rank of captain, Bishop Armstrong returned to St.Mary's. On May 11, 1949, he
was elected Suffragan Bishop of the diocese and was consecrated in a ceremony Oct. 29 at
the Memorial Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond Sts.
The ceremony was followed within a few hours by the death of his first wife, the former Clara Vickers Elliott. Bishop Armstrong remarried in November, 1950.It was in 1949 that the Philadelphia Divinity School conferred on Bishop Armstrong the degree of Doctor of Divinity.The following year, he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the General Theological Seminary.Mrs. Armstrong is the Bishop's sole survivor.service Monday
A Requiem Service of Holy Communion will be held at 11A. M. Monday at St. Mary's Church. A Diocesan Memoria lService will be held at 4:30P. M. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, W. Rittenhouse Square.Bishop DeWitt will officiate a tboth services.A Requiem Eucharist will be
celebrated at 8 A. M. in the Collegiate Chapel of St. Andrew of the Divinity School of the Episcopal Church, 42d and Spruce sts, The service will be open to the public.Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
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The Right Rev. J. Gillespie Armstrong, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, was found dead Thurs-day in bed at his Bryn Mawr home. He was 62. Death came only six months
after Bishop Armstrong was installed as pastoral leader of the 120,000 Episcopalians in the
five-county diocese. The attending physician, Dr.Harold J. Robinson, said the Bishop apparently died of a stroke while reading in bed late Wednesday night at his home,419 Garden lane, Bishop Armstrong had a medical history of high blood pressure but had not been ill recently, Dr. Robinson said,returned from tour The Bishop had returned home Wednesday from a three-day tour of Episcopalian seminaries in Virginia, Massachusetts and New York City, a spokesman for the diocese reported. On the tour, he visited seminarians from this area. the Armstrong home Thursday morning found the Bishop dead, a book still clasped in his hand. She notified diocesan authorities. The Bishop's wife, the former Louise McKelvey, was vacationing in Rome. Notified by telephone of her husband's death, Mrs. Armstrong planned to fly back to Philadelphia immediately. Bishop Armstrong's duties and title were automatically assumed by the Right Rev, Robert L. DeWitt, who has been Bishop Coadjutor since April 1, cancels ceremony Bishop DeWitt met Thursday afternoon with diocesan officials after canceling a scheduled ceremony at City Hall where he was to have received a copy of a City Council resolution congratulating him 'on assuming the post of Bishop Coadjutor. The Pennsylvania diocese numbers 194 parishes in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery,Chester and Delaware counties.Bishop Armstrong became the11th Bishop of the 279-year-old diocese in installation ceremonies last Oct. 26 at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, He succeeded the Right Rev, Oliver J. Hart, who retired last July.
Born in Warren, Pa., Joseph Gillespie Armstrong, 3d, joined the Army when he was 16 and
drove ambulances in Italy and France in the First World War.After the war, he returned to complete his education, which was interrupted again by a three-year hitch in the Marines. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York. Ordained a deacon in April, 1931, he became a priest in November of the same year. His first pastoral assignment was as rector of Severn parish, Waterbury, Md. In 1935, he began a five-year period as rector of Christ Church, Georgetown,D. C.
CAME TO STATE IN '40
Bishop Armstrong came to the Diocese of Pennsylvania in1940 as rector of St. Mary's Church, Ardmore. Two years later, he joined the Navy as a chaplain, seeing service aboard the U.S.S. Nevada in the Pacific as well as in the European Theater of Operations. Leaving wartime service with the rank of captain, Bishop Armstrong returned to St.Mary's. On May 11, 1949, he
was elected Suffragan Bishop of the diocese and was consecrated in a ceremony Oct. 29 at
the Memorial Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond Sts.
The ceremony was followed within a few hours by the death of his first wife, the former Clara Vickers Elliott. Bishop Armstrong remarried in November, 1950.It was in 1949 that the Philadelphia Divinity School conferred on Bishop Armstrong the degree of Doctor of Divinity.The following year, he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the General Theological Seminary.Mrs. Armstrong is the Bishop's sole survivor.service Monday
A Requiem Service of Holy Communion will be held at 11A. M. Monday at St. Mary's Church. A Diocesan Memoria lService will be held at 4:30P. M. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, W. Rittenhouse Square.Bishop DeWitt will officiate a tboth services.A Requiem Eucharist will be
celebrated at 8 A. M. in the Collegiate Chapel of St. Andrew of the Divinity School of the Episcopal Church, 42d and Spruce sts, The service will be open to the public.Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
1/13/1942-09/05/1945
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01/13/1942-09/05/1945
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The Right Rev. J. Gillespie Armstrong, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, was found dead Thurs-day in bed at his Bryn Mawr home. He was 62. Death came only six months
after Bishop Armstrong was installed as pastoral leader of the 120,000 Episcopalians in the
five-county diocese. The attending physician, Dr.Harold J. Robinson, said the Bishop apparently died of a stroke while reading in bed late Wednesday night at his home,419 Garden lane, Bishop Armstrong had a medical history of high blood pressure but had not been ill recently, Dr. Robinson said,returned from tour The Bishop had returned home Wednesday from a three-day tour of Episcopalian seminaries in Virginia, Massachusetts and New York City, a spokesman for the diocese reported. On the tour, he visited seminarians from this area. the Armstrong home Thursday morning found the Bishop dead, a book still clasped in his hand. She notified diocesan authorities. The Bishop's wife, the former Louise McKelvey, was vacationing in Rome. Notified by telephone of her husband's death, Mrs. Armstrong planned to fly back to Philadelphia immediately. Bishop Armstrong's duties and title were automatically assumed by the Right Rev, Robert L. DeWitt, who has been Bishop Coadjutor since April 1, cancels ceremony Bishop DeWitt met Thursday afternoon with diocesan officials after canceling a scheduled ceremony at City Hall where he was to have received a copy of a City Council resolution congratulating him 'on assuming the post of Bishop Coadjutor. The Pennsylvania diocese numbers 194 parishes in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery,Chester and Delaware counties.Bishop Armstrong became the11th Bishop of the 279-year-old diocese in installation ceremonies last Oct. 26 at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, He succeeded the Right Rev, Oliver J. Hart, who retired last July.
Born in Warren, Pa., Joseph Gillespie Armstrong, 3d, joined the Army when he was 16 and
drove ambulances in Italy and France in the First World War.After the war, he returned to complete his education, which was interrupted again by a three-year hitch in the Marines. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York. Ordained a deacon in April, 1931, he became a priest in November of the same year. His first pastoral assignment was as rector of Severn parish, Waterbury, Md. In 1935, he began a five-year period as rector of Christ Church, Georgetown,D. C.
CAME TO STATE IN '40
Bishop Armstrong came to the Diocese of Pennsylvania in1940 as rector of St. Mary's Church, Ardmore. Two years later, he joined the Navy as a chaplain, seeing service aboard the U.S.S. Nevada in the Pacific as well as in the European Theater of Operations. Leaving wartime service with the rank of captain, Bishop Armstrong returned to St.Mary's. On May 11, 1949, he
was elected Suffragan Bishop of the diocese and was consecrated in a ceremony Oct. 29 at
the Memorial Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond Sts.
The ceremony was followed within a few hours by the death of his first wife, the former Clara Vickers Elliott. Bishop Armstrong remarried in November, 1950.It was in 1949 that the Philadelphia Divinity School conferred on Bishop Armstrong the degree of Doctor of Divinity.The following year, he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the General Theological Seminary.Mrs. Armstrong is the Bishop's sole survivor.service Monday
A Requiem Service of Holy Communion will be held at 11A. M. Monday at St. Mary's Church. A Diocesan Memoria lService will be held at 4:30P. M. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, W. Rittenhouse Square.Bishop DeWitt will officiate a tboth services.A Requiem Eucharist will be
celebrated at 8 A. M. in the Collegiate Chapel of St. Andrew of the Divinity School of the Episcopal Church, 42d and Spruce sts, The service will be open to the public.Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
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01/13/1942-09/05/1945
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The Right Rev. J. Gillespie Armstrong, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, was found dead Thurs-day in bed at his Bryn Mawr home. He was 62. Death came only six months
after Bishop Armstrong was installed as pastoral leader of the 120,000 Episcopalians in the
five-county diocese. The attending physician, Dr.Harold J. Robinson, said the Bishop apparently died of a stroke while reading in bed late Wednesday night at his home,419 Garden lane, Bishop Armstrong had a medical history of high blood pressure but had not been ill recently, Dr. Robinson said,returned from tour The Bishop had returned home Wednesday from a three-day tour of Episcopalian seminaries in Virginia, Massachusetts and New York City, a spokesman for the diocese reported. On the tour, he visited seminarians from this area. the Armstrong home Thursday morning found the Bishop dead, a book still clasped in his hand. She notified diocesan authorities. The Bishop's wife, the former Louise McKelvey, was vacationing in Rome. Notified by telephone of her husband's death, Mrs. Armstrong planned to fly back to Philadelphia immediately. Bishop Armstrong's duties and title were automatically assumed by the Right Rev, Robert L. DeWitt, who has been Bishop Coadjutor since April 1, cancels ceremony Bishop DeWitt met Thursday afternoon with diocesan officials after canceling a scheduled ceremony at City Hall where he was to have received a copy of a City Council resolution congratulating him 'on assuming the post of Bishop Coadjutor. The Pennsylvania diocese numbers 194 parishes in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery,Chester and Delaware counties.Bishop Armstrong became the11th Bishop of the 279-year-old diocese in installation ceremonies last Oct. 26 at the Church of the Redeemer in Bryn Mawr, He succeeded the Right Rev, Oliver J. Hart, who retired last July.
Born in Warren, Pa., Joseph Gillespie Armstrong, 3d, joined the Army when he was 16 and
drove ambulances in Italy and France in the First World War.After the war, he returned to complete his education, which was interrupted again by a three-year hitch in the Marines. He took a Bachelor of Arts degree at Johns Hopkins University and received his Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York. Ordained a deacon in April, 1931, he became a priest in November of the same year. His first pastoral assignment was as rector of Severn parish, Waterbury, Md. In 1935, he began a five-year period as rector of Christ Church, Georgetown,D. C.
CAME TO STATE IN '40
Bishop Armstrong came to the Diocese of Pennsylvania in1940 as rector of St. Mary's Church, Ardmore. Two years later, he joined the Navy as a chaplain, seeing service aboard the U.S.S. Nevada in the Pacific as well as in the European Theater of Operations. Leaving wartime service with the rank of captain, Bishop Armstrong returned to St.Mary's. On May 11, 1949, he
was elected Suffragan Bishop of the diocese and was consecrated in a ceremony Oct. 29 at
the Memorial Church of the Advocate, 18th and Diamond Sts.
The ceremony was followed within a few hours by the death of his first wife, the former Clara Vickers Elliott. Bishop Armstrong remarried in November, 1950.It was in 1949 that the Philadelphia Divinity School conferred on Bishop Armstrong the degree of Doctor of Divinity.The following year, he received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from the General Theological Seminary.Mrs. Armstrong is the Bishop's sole survivor.service Monday
A Requiem Service of Holy Communion will be held at 11A. M. Monday at St. Mary's Church. A Diocesan Memoria lService will be held at 4:30P. M. at the Church of the Holy Trinity, W. Rittenhouse Square.Bishop DeWitt will officiate a tboth services.A Requiem Eucharist will be
celebrated at 8 A. M. in the Collegiate Chapel of St. Andrew of the Divinity School of the Episcopal Church, 42d and Spruce sts, The service will be open to the public.Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery.
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