David Hummell Greer was an American

United States

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 Protestant Episcopal bishop.

Biography

He was born in Wheeling, Virginia

Wheeling, West Virginia

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, (now West Virginia), graduated at Washington College

Washington & Jefferson College

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 (Pa.) in 1862, and studied at the Protestant Episcopal Seminary, Gambier

Gambier, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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. Ordained a priest in 1868, he was rector

Rector

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 successively at Covington, Kentucky

Covington, Kentucky

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 (1868–1871), Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 (1871–1888), and New York City

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 at St. Bartholomew's Church

Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, New York

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, 1888–1904. In 1903 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor for the New York diocese and in 1908 succeeded Bishop Potter

Henry Codman Potter

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 upon the latter's decease. He was replaced as rector of St. Bartholomew's Church by Dr. Leighton Parks

Leighton Parks

Rev. Dr. Leighton Parks was a liberal American Protestant Episcopal clergyman. He was born in New York City and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1876. Ordained a priest the next year, from 1878 to 1904 he was rector of Emmanuel Church, Boston. He then became rector of St....

. Bishop Greer made himself known as an untiring personal worker in his parishes and his diocese, and as a believer in direct and unceremonious relationship between clergy

Clergy

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 and laymen

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. Following his death, the Hope Farm School in Dutchess County, New York

Dutchess County, New York

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, was renamed "Greer School".

Publications

• Moral Power of History (1890)
• From Things to God (1893)
• The Preacher and his Place (1895)
• Visions (1898)