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WILLIAM THEODOTUS, an American Protestant Episcopal bishop, born in Greenville, S. C., in 1867. He studied at the South Carolina College, Furman University, ard at the Theological Seminary of Virginia, graduating from the latter institution in 1894. From 1887 to 1890 he was engaged in business. He was ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1895 and served as rector and dean of several churches in North Carolina, South Carolina, Missouri, and Kentucky. In 1912 and 1913 he was rector of the Church of the Holy Apostles, Philadelphia.

He was elected bishop of the missionary district of Spokane, but declined the appointment. In 1913 he was appointed bishop of west Texas.

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