Frederic C. Lawrence (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Frederic C. Lawrence (1899-April 16, 1989), was suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts (1956-68). Frederic's father, William Lawrence, was the seventh bishop of the diocese (1893-1927). Bishop Lawrence was the grandson of the notable abolishionist Amos Adams Lawrence and a member of the influential Boston Family, founded by his great-great-grandfather and American revolutionary Samuel Lawrence; his great-grandfather was the famed philanthropist Amos Lawrence. Frederic Cunningham Lawrence became a priest in 1925 after graduating from the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he became rector of St. Peter's Church. The Rev. Lawrence was later appointed rector of St. Paul's Church in nearby Brookline. Rev. Lawrence earned his D.D. from Harvard Divinity School in 1937 and was elected Suffragan Bishop in 1956, a position which he held in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts until his retiremenet in 1968.