Thomas Dudley

Background

Dudley was born in Richmond, Virginia on September 26, 1837.

Education

He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he taught Latin until the American Civil War.

Career

After the war, he studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria and became a priest. He was rector of Christ Church, Baltimore. He was consecrated as the Assistant Bishop of Kentucky on January 27, 1875, and succeeded as Bishop of the Diocese in 1884 following the death of Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith.

At his death in 1904, Dudley was chairman of the House of Bishops and chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South.

Achievements

• He served in the Confederate States Army through the war, attaining the rank of Major.