Historical Society of the Episcopal Church

Historiographers of the Episcopal Church

Samuel Farmar Jarvis
(January 20,1786—March 26,1851)
Historiographer,
September 16, 1838—March 26, 1851

Francis Lister Hawks
(June 10,1798—September 27, 1866)
Historiographer,
?—September 27,1866

William Stevens Perry
(January 22, 1832—May 13, 1898)
Historiographer,
October 23, 1868—May 13, 1898

Samuel Hart
(June 4,1845—February 25,1917)
Historiographer,
October 17,1898—February 25, 1917

Edward Clowes Chorley
(May 6,1865—November 2,1949)
Historiographer,
October 14, 1919—October 1, 1949

Edgar Legare Pennington
(January 15,1891—December 10, 1951)
Historiographer,
October 1, 1949—December 10, 1951

Walter Herbert Stowe
(January 22, 1895—January 2, 1989)
Historiographer,
September 11,1952—September 27, 1967

Church Historical Society
Historiographer,
September 20, 1976—March 21, 1989

John Everett Booty
(May 2, 1925—April 17, 2013)
Historiographer,
March 22, 1989—November 1, 1999

John Robert Wright
(b. October 20,1936—)
Historiographer,
July 5, 2000—July 5, 2012

Robert Bruce Mullin
(b. October 24, 1953—)
Historiographer July 5, 2012—

This list is based on the work of the Rev. Donald Smith Armentrout, retired professor of church history and historical theology, the Charles Quintard professor of dogmatic theology, and director of the Advanced Degrees Program at the University of the South’s School of Theology in Sewanee, Tennessee. It had been supplement by Matthew P. Payne, Director of Operations of the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.

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