Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter

Background

Carpenter, Charles Colcock Jones was born on September 2, 1899 in Augusta, Georgia, United States. Son of Review Samuel Barstow and Ruth Berrien (Jones) Carpenter.

Education

Graduate Lawrenceville School, 1917. Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University, 1921. Doctor of Divinity, 1947.

Bachelor of Divinity, Virginia Theological Seminary, 1926, Doctor of Divinity, 1938. Doctor of Laws, University of Alabama, 1938. Doctor of Divinity, University of the South, 1938.

Career

Ordained to ministry Protestant Episcopal Church December 1925. Rector Grace Church, Waycross, Georgia, 1926-1928. Archdeacon of Georgia, 1928-1929.

Rector St. Johns Church, Savannah, Georgia, 1929-1936. Rector Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama, 1936-1938. Consecrated bishop of Alabama, June 24, 1938.

Chancellor, University the South, Sewanee, 1961-1967.

Membership

Served as Second lieutenant Infantry, United States Army, 1918. Member Society Colonial Wars, Society of the Cincinnati, Princeton Quadrangle. Member National Council, P.E. Church, 1943-1949.

Club: Mountain Brook.

Connections

Married Alexandra Morrison, November 21, 1928. Children: Charles C. J., Douglas Morrison, Ruth Berrien and Alexandra (twins).

Father:

Review Samuel Barstow Carpenter

Mother:

Ruth Berrien (Jones) Carpenter

Spouse:

Alexandra Morrison

child:

Charles C. J. Carpenter

child:

Douglas Morrison Carpenter

child:

Ruth Berrien and Alexandra Carpenter (twins)