American bishop (1853–1916)
Naphtali Luccock (1853–1916) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church , elected in 1912.
He was born on 28 September 1853 in Kimbolton, Ohio . He entered the traveling ministry of the Pittsburgh Annual Conference of the M.E. Church (which at that time included eastern Ohio ) in 1874. Later he was transferred to the St. Louis conference.[ 1]
Before his election to the episcopacy , Luccock was a pastor . His was a brief episcopal incumbency, for he died within his first four years, on 1 April 1916 in La Crosse, Wisconsin . He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri .
He is the author of The Illustrated History of Methodism (1901), with J. W. Lee and J. M. Dixon, and The Royalty of Jesus (1905), sermons.[ 1]
References
^ a b New International Encyclopedia
Other sources
Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
Methodism: Ohio Area (1812-1962), edited by John M. Versteeg, Litt.D., D.D. (Ohio Area Sesquicentennial Committee, 1962).
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