Harold Louis Wright Jr. (1929 – June 11, 1978) was an American prelate who served as the Suffragan Bishop of New York from 1974 until 1978.

Biography

Wright was born in 1929 in

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, Massachusetts. He was educated at the Boston public schools and later at the

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. He also studied at

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and graduated with a

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. He enrolled for theological studies at the

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from where he earned his

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in 1952. Wright was ordained deacon and priest in 1957 by Bishop Jonathan G. Sherman, Suffragan of Long Island. He then became vicar and then rector of the Church of the Resurrection in

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. Between 1970 and 1974 he served as assistant to the Bishop of New York for Ministries. In 1973, Wright was elected Suffragan Bishop of New York and was consecrated on February 2, 1974, in the

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by Bishop

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of New York, and assisted by John Burgess of Massachusetts, Horace W. B. Donegan the former Bishop of New York, Quintin E. Primo Jr. the Suffragan of Chicago, John T. Walker the Suffragan of Washington, and Richard Beamon Martin the Suffragan of Long Island. Bishop Wright died a few years later, on June 11, 1978, in

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after a heart attack.Johnson, R
"Bishop Harold L. Wright, 46, Dies; Episcopal Suffragan in New York"
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'', New York, 12 June 1978. Retrieved on 1 May 2020.

References

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