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from 1970 to 1974, where he strove to increase the student body with minority people and women. He was the first president of the seminary to come from a non-Calvinist tradition. He also served for a time as Assistant Bishop of Pennsylvania from 1975 till 1982 and then as chairman of Planned
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of Delaware. He succeeded as diocesan bishop on January 1, 1955, and was installed on January 16, 1955. He resigned his see on October 1, 1968. Between 1968 and 1970 he served as deputy of the Executive Council for overseas relations. He then served as president of
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Mosley was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Delaware on June 29, 1953, during a special convention which took place at
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on October 18, 1915. the son of John Brooke Mosley, a chemist, and Bertha Alice Urwiler. He was raised in
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Parenthood in Southeastern Pennsylvania from 1984 to 1987. Mosley was an early, vocal supporter of the
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He married Betty Mary Wall at St. Thomas Church, Whitemarsh, Fort Washington, PA, on 6 June 1942.
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Mosley was ordained deacon in June 1940 and became assistant at the Church of St Barnabas in
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whilst boarding a train for Philadelphia, on March 4, 1988.
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Bishop of Delaware
Portrait of the Rt. Rev. John Brooke Mosley upon his 1953 consecration as bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Delaware.
Episcopal Church
Delaware
Arthur R. McKinstry
William H. Mead
Coadjutor Bishop of Delaware
Henry Hobson
Henry Knox Sherrill
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
United States
New York City
New York
United States
Anglican
Alma mater
Temple University
Episcopal Diocese of Delaware
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Willow Grove, Pennsylvania
Temple University
Bachelor of Arts
Episcopal Theological Seminary
Bachelor of Divinity
Doctor of Divinity
Kenyon College
Colgate University
Doctor of Sacred Theology

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