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 |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1962 by John Seville Higgins |
| Consecration | March 2, 1991 by Edmond L. Browning |
| Personal details | |
| Born | August 17, 1936 |
| Nationality | American |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | Walter Francis Rockwell & Kathryn McElroy |
| Spouse | Linda Hullinger (m. 1957) |
| Children | 4 |
| Previous post(s) | Coadjutor Bishop of Missouri (1991-1992) |
| 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.
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]
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]
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.
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