Background
Block, Karl Morgan was born on September 27, 1886 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Sigismund Joseph and Joanna Christine (Linder) Block.
Block, Karl Morgan was born on September 27, 1886 in Washington, District of Columbia. Son of Sigismund Joseph and Joanna Christine (Linder) Block.
Bachelor of Arts, George Washington University, 1907. Bachelor of Divinity, Theological Seminary Virginia, 1910, Doctor of Divinity, 1950. Doctor Systematic Theology, School of the Pacific, 1953.
Doctor of Divinity, Roanoke College, 1923, University of South, 1935. Doctor of Laws, Washington University, 1937.
Ordained ministry Protestant Episcopal Church, 1910. Chaplain Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Virginia, 1910-1913. Rector Grace Church, Haddonfield, New Jersey, 1913-1917.
Volunteer chaplain Camp Dix, New Jersey, 1917-1918. Rector All Saints’ Church, Norristown, Pennsylvania, 1918-1920, St. John’s Church, Roanoke, 1920-1926, Church of St. Michael and St. George. St. Louis, 1926-1938.
Bishop co-adjutor, California, 1938. bishop since 1941. Trustee St. Luke’s Hospital, Mills College.
Author: Our Common Life, 1929. The Sword of St. Michael, 1936. Contributor to Revealing Christ, 1935.The Redeemer. 1937
also to religious journals Vice chairman House of Bishops.
Member Delta Tau Delta. Clubs: Commonweath, Pacific Union, University (San Francisco).
Married Nancy Holliday Shackelford, October 1, 1913 (died February 1945). Children: Virginia Randolph, Karl Morgan.