William Edmond Armitage

The Right Reverend William Edmond Armitage
Bishop of Wisconsin
Church	Episcopal Church
Diocese	Wisconsin
In office	1870-1873
Predecessor	Jackson Kemper
Successor	Edward R. Welles
Orders
Ordination	27 September 1854 by George Burgess
Consecration	6 December 1866
Personal details
Born	(1830-09-06)September 6, 1830 New York City, New York, United States
Died	December 7, 1873(1873-12-07) (aged 43) New York City, New York, United States
Buried	Elmwood Cemetery (Detroit, Michigan)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Columbia University

William Edmond Armitage (September 6, 1830 – December 7, 1873) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Biography

Born in New York City, he graduated from Columbia College in 1849 and the General Theological Seminary in 1852. He was ordained deacon in the Church of the Transfiguration, New York on June 27, 1852 by Bishop Carleton Chase and priest in St. Mark's, Augusta, Maine on September 27, 1854 by Bishop George Burgess.

Armitage's first position was as assistant at St. John's, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. He was then called to St. Mark's, Augusta, Maine, until called to be rector of St. John's, Detroit, Michigan, where he was when elected to the episcopate. He received his doctorate in divinity from Columbia College in 1866.

Armitage was consecrated at St. John's Detroit on December 6, 1866, by bishops Kemper, McCoskry, H. W. Lee, Whipple, J. C. Talbot, Coxe, Clarkson, Kerfoot, and Cummins, together with Bishop Cronyn, the Bishop of Huron, Canada. He was coadjutor bishop to Jackson Kemper (1866–1870) and on the death of Kemper served as the second Bishop of Wisconsin (1870–1873). He died in St. Luke's Hospital, New York, on December 7, 1873, and his remains are buried in Detroit, Michigan, at Elmwood Cemetery.

External links

• Documents by W. E. Armitage from Project Canterbury