Reginald Heber Weller

The Right Reverend

Reginald Heber Weller

D.D., LL.D.
The Right Reverend; Reginald Heber Weller; D.D., LL.D.
University of the South

Reginald Heber Weller, Jr. (November 6, 1857 – November 22, 1935) was an

ecumenical

movement, establishing a dialogue among Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Christians.

Early life

The son of an Episcopal priest,

University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee, Weller received his degree of Bachelor of Divinity at Nashotah House in 1884. He was ordained deacon in 1880. He was ordained a priest in 1884 at All Saints’ Mission, Providence, Rhode Island, after serving his diaconate there. Weller was married to Bessie Brown in 1886 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin

. They had one daughter, Ruth, and five sons, Daniel, George, Walter, Horace, and Reginald.

Priesthood

Rectorships at

Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Fond du Lac in 1900.^[1]

Election as Bishop

Saint Tikhon of Moscow (along with his chaplains Fr. John Kochurov and Fr. Sebastian Dabovich) of the Russian Orthodox Church

He was consecrated

Saint Tikhon, was present as well as Antoni Kozlowski [pl] of the Polish National Catholic Church. Bishops Charles Chapman Grafton and Weller were photographed with these and other bishops wearing copes and mitres, a "Catholic" practice which was not widely accepted in the "Protestant" Episcopal Church at that time. The photo, published widely back east, became known as the Fond du Lac Circus

.

Service as Bishop

During his thirty-three years of active service, a longer episcopate than any other in the state at the time, Weller preached in all parts of the country. He held many positions of importance in the church and became widely known in England. He became diocesan bishop on August 30, 1912, after the death of Grafton. He held the position of Superior General of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament from 1913 to 1935, succeeding Grafton who held the office from 1890 to 1912.

In 1919, Weller was a member of the

Anglican Christians. Attendants at the Lambeth Conference

in 1930 found Weller taking an active part in its deliberations and preaching in several English cathedrals. At home or abroad, Weller was a defender of the faith, a stirring, convincing preacher of great ability, a wise pastor, generous friend, and a man of God.

Weller held many preaching missions, especially in the eastern United States. He took an active and influential part in the deliberations of the

Bishop Coadjutor of the diocese. Four years later in November 1933, Bishop Sturtevant succeeded Weller as the fourth bishop of the diocese. He died on November 22, 1935, at the home of his son George in Aurora, Illinois.^[1]

References

^
Newspapers.com.

^ "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRT1-H5S : 12 December 2014), R. H. Weller in entry for Charles Grafton Weller, 08 Apr 1895; citing Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, reference cn 1102; FHL microfilm 1,305,144.
^ "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRT1-3HG : 12 December 2014), R. H. Weller in entry for Weller, 06 Oct 1891; citing Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, reference cn 177; FHL microfilm 1,305,144.

External links

Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by Charles Chapman Grafton	Bishop of Fond du Lac 1900–1933	Succeeded by Harwood Sturtevant

[Obit-1] 
Newspapers.com.

[2] "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRT1-H5S : 12 December 2014), R. H. Weller in entry for Charles Grafton Weller, 08 Apr 1895; citing Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, reference cn 1102; FHL microfilm 1,305,144.

[3] "Wisconsin Births and Christenings, 1826-1926," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XRT1-3HG : 12 December 2014), R. H. Weller in entry for Weller, 06 Oct 1891; citing Stevens Point, Portage, Wisconsin, reference cn 177; FHL microfilm 1,305,144.

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