Reese, Frederick Focke

REESE, rîs, FREDERICK FOCKE: Protestant Episcopal bishop of Georgia; b. at Baltimore, Md., Oct. 23, 1854. He was educated at the University of Virginia (1872–75) and Berkeley Divinity School, Middletown, Conn. (1875–76), and was ordered deacon in 1878 and advanced to the priesthood in the following year. He was minister and priest in charge of All Souls', Baltimore, as well as curate at the Church of the Ascension in the same city (1878–85). and rector of Trinity, Portsmouth, Va. (1885–90)Christ Church, Macon, Ga. (1890–1903), and Christ Church, Nashville, Tenn. (1903–08). He was a deputy to six general conventions (1892–1907), and also a trustee of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. In 1908, on the division of the diocese of Georgia into the sees of Atlanta and Georgia, he was consecrated bishop of the latter.