Ernest Lynn Waldorf
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ernest Lynn Waldorf (14 May 1876 – 27 July 1943) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920.
He was born on a farm in the South Valley, Otsego County, New York. The "Waldruff" family originally came from Holland. Waldorf united with the Central New York Annual Conference of the M.E. Church in 1900. Prior to his election to the Episcopacy, Waldorf served as a Pastor, and as a Chaplain in the 74th Regt. of the National Guard in Buffalo, New York, 1911-15.
He died after a few months illness, on 27 July 1943 in the Noble Foundation Hospital, Alexandria Bay, New York. He was buried in Morningside (cemetery?) in Syracuse, New York.
[edit] Selected Writings
- Sermons, Addresses and Radio Talks, typed mss., in the Methodist Bishops' Collection at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University.
- Address: "Riches," Book of the Sesqui-Centennial of American Methodism, 1934.
- The Use of Hardship, Sermons By the Sea, 1939.
[edit] Reference
- Leete, Frederick DeLand, Methodist Bishops. Nashville, The Methodist Publishing House, 1948.
[edit] See also
This article about an individual bishop, archbishop, or patriarch, or about a bishopric, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
