Paul Clement Matthews (December 25, 1866 – January 17, 1954) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, serving from 1915 to 1937.

Biography

He was born in Glendale, Ohio, the son of

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, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Mary Ann Black. He was educated at St Paul's school in Concord, New Hampshire and later at Princeton College. He studied at the

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and graduated in 1890. He also briefly studied at the

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as an unattached student. He was ordained deacon on June 22, 1890, by Boyd Vincent of Southern Ohio, and served as deacon at the Church of the Advent in

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. He was ordained a priest on October 18, 1891, by Bishop George Worthington of Nebraska and retained his post at the Church of the Advent till 1895. After a trip to the Holy Land, he became rector of St Luke's Church in

where he remained till 1904. That same year he became Dean of St Paul's Cathedral while in 1913 he became Dean of the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour in

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. He was also professor of divinity at the Seabury Divinity School. On October 7, 1914, he was elected Bishop of New Jersey and was consecrated on January 25, 1915, by Bishop Boyd Vincent. He retired on November 1, 1937. He died on January 17, 1954, in

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at the age of 87. Matthews married the

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heiress Elsie Procter; their son,

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, was editor of ''Time'' magazine.

References

1866 births 1954 deaths People from New Jersey Episcopal bishops of New Jersey {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub