Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-06-09
ORDAINED AT SEMINARY 81
Six Bishops. Take Part in Final Ser
vice of. Commencement Exer-
cises This Morning

:! Six students of the Episcopal
! Theological Seminary were ordain-
ed deacons and seven deacons ordaln-
,, ed priests at; the final services OF
the commencement exercises held at
the Seminary this morning. Six
bishops took part in the services.
The bishops, professors of the
Seminary and the candidates for or
dination with their presenting clergy
men, after vesting in Prayer Hall,
marched to the chapel and took their
appropriate places in the choir and and
chancel. The bishops present and
taking part in the service were the
Ri. Rev. Robert A. Gibson, ID,
bishop of Virginia and president OF
the Seminary, the Rt. Rev. a. M
Randolph, D.D., bishop of South
ern Virginia, the Rt. Rev. James H.
| Winchester, DID,, bishop of Ark
an rlss the Ri. Rev. William L. Ora
watt, DID,, Misrepresentation of West
Virginia, the Ri. Rev. Beverley D.
Tucker, DID,, bishop coadjutor of
Southern Virginia, and the Rt. Rev.
William Cabell Brown, D. D., bish-
op-coadiutor of Virginia, These all
occupied seats in the chancel.
AS morning prayer had been said
1t half past seven o'clock by the
2evs. Churchill J. Gibson and B.
y. Chambers the ordination service
opened with few appropriate pray
ors read by Bishop Gibson. The ser
non was preached by the Rev. Ed
ward T. Helfenstein, DID,, rector
f St. Johns Church, Ellicott City,
Nd. and archdeacon of Annapolis,
Md.
The following students Of the Sem
mary were ordained deacons: Viii
liam Preston Peyton, of the diocese
Ct Southern Virginia, by Bishop Ran
dolph: Lenoir Valentine Lee, B.A.,
| Edward w. Mellichampe, George
! Charles Shears and Franklin 7. Os-
born, B.A., by Bishop Brown. Mes
srs. Lee, Mellichampe and Shears
were ordained for the diocese of Vir-
ginia, while Mr.. Osborn was ordain-
ed by Bishop Brown, acting for Blsh-
OBJ Funston of Idaho, and will be
transferred to Bishop Kinsblvfng,
of Southern Brazil, for missionary
work in that country. Rufus B. Tenn
pleton, NJ. A., was ordained by Bish-
CD Winchester for work in Arkansas.
! The following deacons were ordain-
cd priests: the Rev. Francis Alan
j Parsons, of Chester, w. Va, by Bish-
cp-coadjutor Gravatt, Ile Revs. Am
bier M. Blackboard, of Columbia, Va,
Elroy Jeffrey Jennings, of Woodber-
ry Forest School, William Byrd Lee
ir., of St. Paul's parish, Hanover,
cc.lnty, Va, and William Clarkson
Marshall, jr., of Casanova, Fauquier
county, Va, by Bishop Gibson, and
the Rev. Cameron G. Richardson,
of Buchanan, Va, and the Rev. Her
cert Heldruf Young, MA, by
Misrepresentation Tucker, of South
ern Virginia.
The Rev. H. H. Young, has ac-
cepted charge in Lunenburg, coun-
~, Va. The Rev. Edward w. Mel
lichampe is assigned to Pohick and
Olivet churches, Fairfax county,
where he has been a lay reader for
the past two years, the Rev. George
C. Shears to St. Johns Church, Nc
Lean, Fairfax county, and Epiphany,
Cherrydale, Alexandria county,
where he has been acting as ley
reader for sometime, and the Rev.
Lenoir Valentine Lee, will assist the
Rev. w. Russell Bowie, rector of
St. PauPs Church, Richmond.
The musical portion of the SER
vices under charge of Dr.. Harry
man, the organist of the Seminary,
was we'll rendered.
At the alumni meeting yesterday,
numerous tributes were paid the
Rev. Dr.. Crawford, the retiring dean
of the Seminary, A resolution couch
Gu in most appropriate and we'll de-
served terms, appreciative of Dean
Crawford's valued work in behalf
| of the Seminary, was offered by the
Rev. William A. Rutherford Good
win, D. D., of Rochester, n. y, and
unanimously passed by the alumni