Edward Gonzalez Carroll was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1972.
Background
Carroll was born 7 January 1910 in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of Julius Sylvester and Florence Dungee Carroll. He was married to Phenola Valentine. Their children included a son, Edward Carroll Junior, and a daughter, Nansi.
The Carrolls also had two grandsons.
Phenola died 20 June 1999.
Education
Carroll earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in 1930 from Morgan College. He earned the Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1933 from Yale Divinity School. Carroll also earned an Master of Arts from, and did work toward the Doctorate.Ed. degree at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary.
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Carroll was awarded an honorary degree Doctor of Laws in 1967 by Morgan College.
Career
Carroll also earned an Master of Arts Carroll was ordained Deacon in 1933 by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes. He was ordained Elder by Bishop Hughes in 1935. Annual Conference. He also served for one year as pastor in Grafton-Buckhannon, West Virginia.
Carroll then became Professor of Religion and the Director of Voluntary Religious Activities at Morgan College, serving for four years.
Carroll served as a United States. Army chaplain for four years during World World War World War II He was chaplain of the 93rd Engineers. After the war he accepted a position as Associate Secretary of the National Student Young Men’s Christian Association for another four years.
Carroll reentered pastoral ministry as the Associate Pastor and Director of Christian education of the Saint Marks Methodist Church in New York City. He transferred to the New York Annual Conference in 1950.
In 1955 he transferred back into the Washington Conference and was appointed to Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Church, Baltimore, serving for seven years.
Then he was appointed the Superintendent of the Washington District of the Washington Conference. Following a merger of the Washington and Baltimore conferences, Review Carroll became in 1966 the Superintendent of the Washington West District of the new Baltimore Conference.
In 1968 he was appointed Pastor of Marvin Memorial Methodist Church, Silver Spring, Maryland.
He was elected by his annual conference as a delegate to several General Conferences of The Methodist Church. He was assigned to the Boston Episcopal Area, where he served until his retirement in 1980.
In retirement, Bishop Carroll served as a Visiting Professor and a Bishop-in-Residence at the Boston University School of Theology. Bishop Carroll also was a tennis enthusiast for many years.
Bishop Carroll died 1 January 2000 in Gainesville, Florida, just six days short of his ninetieth birthday.
There were plans for a memorial service at the Boston University Chapel as well.