Background
Woodcock, Charles Edward was born on June 12, 1854 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph B. and Caroline (Shaw) Woodcock.
Woodcock, Charles Edward was born on June 12, 1854 in New Britain, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joseph B. and Caroline (Shaw) Woodcock.
Educated private and public schools, Waterbury and Plainville, Connecticut, private tutors. Graduate Berkeley Division School, Middletown, Connecticut, 1882. South.T.D., Hobart, 1904.
Doctor of Divinity, University of the South, 1905, Berkeley, 1908.
Doctor of Laws, University of Louisville, 1913.
Deacon, 1882, priest, 1883, Protestant Episcopal Church. Assistant Grace Church, Baltimore, 1882-1884. Rector Church of the Ascension, New Haven, Connecticut, 1884-1888, Christ Church, Ansonia, Connecticut, 1888-1900, Saint John's, Detroit, 1900-1905.
Elected bishop of Kentucky, November 16, 1904, consecrated January 25, 1905.
Delaware to General Convention Protestant Episcopal Church, from Connecticut, 1895, 98, from Michigan, 1904.
Member Standing Committee of Diocese while in Connecticut, also in Michigan.
Married Ellen Austin Warner, November 20, 1884.