Grieg Taber

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Grieg Taber (January 21, 1895 - April 8, 1964) was a prominent Anglo-Catholic priest in the American Episcopal Church during the twentieth century. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at the former St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson (BA) and the former Seabury Divinity School (BD 1919). He was ordained to the diaconate in June 1919 and to the priesthood in December 1919. Initially a priest-educator, Taber was master at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota from 1918 to 1920, and chaplain and instructor in History and Greek at the Trinity-Pawling School (1920–1927).

Taber achieved national prominence as an Anglo-Catholic leader as rector of All Saints Church, Ashmont, Dorchester, Massachusetts (1927–1939) and rector of St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square, from 1939^[1] until his death in 1964. He was a trustee of St. Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women, treasurer-general of the American Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament from 1953 to 1963, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1940.

According to his obituary in the New York Times, Taber was a bachelor with a love of music who died of a heart attack at the Metropolitan Opera during Giacomo Puccini's Tosca .^[2]

He was succeeded by Donald L. Garfield.^[3]

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References

↑ "BOSTONIAN CHOSEN ST. MARY'S RECTOR; The Rev. Grieg Taber Elected by High Episcopal Church". The New York Times Archives. July 3, 1939. p. B15. The Rev. Grieg Taber, rector of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, Boston...
↑ "REV. DR. GRIEG TABBR, RECTOR HERE, WAS 69". New York Times . April 11, 1964.
↑ "GARFIELD NAMED". Episcopal Press and News. The Archives of the Episcopal Church. December 10, 1964. Retrieved 30 May 2022. The parish has been without a rector since the death April 8 of the Rev. Grieg Taber.

Episcopal Clerical Directory
"Grieg Taber of Ashmont Ordained," The Boston Globe, December 20, 1919
"Fr. Taber Goes to N. York," The Boston Globe, July 8, 1939
"Grieg Taber," New York Daily News, April 10, 1964, p. 41
Ave parish magazine

External links

Pray the Mass (New York: St. Mary's Press, 1953)
Grave at Milton Cemetery in Norfolk County, Massachusetts

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[1] "BOSTONIAN CHOSEN ST. MARY'S RECTOR; The Rev. Grieg Taber Elected by High Episcopal Church". The New York Times Archives. July 3, 1939. p. B15. The Rev. Grieg Taber, rector of All Saints Protestant Episcopal Church, Boston...

[2] "REV. DR. GRIEG TABBR, RECTOR HERE, WAS 69". New York Times . April 11, 1964.

[3] "GARFIELD NAMED". Episcopal Press and News. The Archives of the Episcopal Church. December 10, 1964. Retrieved 30 May 2022. The parish has been without a rector since the death April 8 of the Rev. Grieg Taber.

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