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MMANNING, WILLIAM THOMAS (12 May 1866, Northampton, England–18November 1949, New York). Education: B.D., School of Theology of the Universityof the South, 1894. Career: Curate, Calvary Church, Memphis, Tenn.,1889–91; rector, Trinity Church, Redlands, Calif., 1891–93; professor of systematicdivinity, School of Theology of the University of the South, 1893–95; priestin-charge,Trinity Mission, Cincinnati, 1895–96; rector, Church of St. John theEvangelist, Lansdowne, Pa., 1896–98; rector, Christ Church, Nashville, Tenn.,1898–1903; vicar, St. Agnes’ Chapel of Trinity Parish, New York, 1903–4; assistantrector, Trinity Church, New York, 1904–8; rector, Trinity Church, NewYork, 1908–21; bishop, diocese of New York, 1921–46.William T. Manning, an influential high church bishop in the early twentiethcentury, was born in May 1866 in Northampton, England. Little is known abouthis childhood, but when he was 16 years of age, he emigrated to the United Stateswith his family. The Mannings settled first in Nebraska and later in San Diego,California, where William became active in St. Paul’s Church. The most crucialevent in his early spiritual development was his decision to enter the School ofTheology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. At Sewanee hestudied with the theologian William Porcher DuBose* and assisted him in thewriting and publication of The Soteriology of the New Testament (1892). DuBosehelped Manning to see that the church’s teachings on the Incarnation and thesacraments were consistent with scientific and historical thought. Manning wasalso encouraged by DuBose to define his faith broadly and to nurture a piety thatwas experiential and evangelical.Manning was ordained to the diaconate in December 1889 and to the priesthoodtwo years later. Between 1889 and 1903, he served as a parish minister in Tennessee,California, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and as a professor at Sewanee. In