The Right Reverend Theodore DuBose Bratton D.D. | |
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Bishop of Mississippi | |
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Province | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Mississippi |
Elected | 1903 |
In office | 1903–1938 |
Predecessor | Hugh Miller Thompson |
Successor | William Mercer Green |
Orders | |
Ordination | September 23, 1888 by William B. W. Howe |
Consecration | September 29, 1903 by Thomas Underwood Dudley |
Personal details | |
Born | November 11, 1862 |
Died | June 26, 1944 Jackson, Mississippi, United States | (aged 81)
Buried | Cedar Lawn Cemetery (Jackson, Mississippi) |
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | John Simpson Bratton & Elizabeth Porcher DuBose |
Spouse | Lucy Beverly Randolph (m. 1888, d. 1905) Ivy Wardlaw Perrin (m. 1906, d. 1938) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | Sewanee: The University of the South |
Theodore DuBose Bratton (November 11, 1862 – June 26, 1944) was a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church and the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans.
Bratton was born on November 11, 1862, near Winnsboro, South Carolina. [1] [2] He graduated from Sewanee: The University of the South, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1887 and a bachelor of divinity in 1889. [1]
Bratton was the rector of the Church of the Advent in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1892. [2] He was founder of the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood, South Carolina, in 1892–1897. [2] He was a teacher at St Mary's School for Girls in Raleigh, North Carolina, until 1903. [1] [2]
Bratton was appointed as a bishop of Mississippi in The Episcopal Church in 1903. [1] [2] In 1929, he was appointed as the chaplain general of the United Confederate Veterans. [3]
Bratton resided in Jackson, Mississippi, where he died on June 26, 1944, at 82. [2]