Hays Hamilton Rockwell

The Right Reverend Hays Hamilton Rockwell D.D.
Bishop of Missouri
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Missouri
Elected	October 27, 1990
In office	1992–2002
Predecessor	William A. Jones
Successor	George Wayne Smith
Previous post(s)	Coadjutor Bishop of Missouri (1991-1992)
Orders
Ordination	1962 by John Seville Higgins
Consecration	March 2, 1991 by Edmond L. Browning
Personal details
Born	(1936-08-17) August 17, 1936 (age 88) Detroit, Michigan, United States
Denomination	Anglican
Parents	Walter Francis Rockwell & Kathryn McElroy
Spouse	Linda Hullinger ​ (m. 1957)​
Children	4
Alma mater	Brown University

Hays Hamilton Rockwell (born August 17, 1936) is an American prelate who was ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.

Early life and education

Rockwell was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 17, 1936, the son of Walter Francis Rockwell and Kathryn McElroy. He was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1958) and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.Div. 1961). He also earned an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Kenyon College in 1974, and from the Seminary of the Southwest in 1984.[1]

Ordained ministry

Rockwell was ordained deacon in 1961 and priest in 1962. He began his priestly career at St. George's School, Middletown, Rhode Island (1961–69) and then moved to Rochester, New York where he served first as chaplain at the University of Rochester (1969–71) and then as dean at Bexley Hall Theological Seminary (1971–76). From there he moved to New York City in 1976 where he served for fifteen years as the fourteenth rector of St. James' Episcopal Church on the Upper East Side. Under his leadership St. James' initiated a ministry for the homeless and became one of the first churches to divest from investments in apartheid South Africa.[2]

In 1976 he was elected to the Anglican Consultative Council.[3]

Bishop

In 1990 he was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Missouri, becoming bishop diocesan in June 1992. In November 2000, he announced his plan to retire in the summer of 2002.[4] He was succeeded by George Wayne Smith.

See also

• List of Episcopal bishops of the United States
• Historical list of the Episcopal bishops of the United States

References

1. "ROCKWELL, HAYS HAMILTON". Who's Who in the Midwest: 505. 2003.
2. "Mission and History". St. James' Church. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
3. "St James' Church to Get New Rector". New York Times. 26 April 1976. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
4. Rice, Patricia (2000-11-19). "EPISCOPAL BISHOP SAYS HE PLANS TO RETIRE IN 2002: HE MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT NOW SO DIOCESE HAS TIME TO FIND REPLACEMENT". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.