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Thomas Underwood Dudley

Thomas Underwood Dudley was the second Bishop of Kentucky in The Episcopal Church.
Dudley was born in Richmond, Virginia on September 26, 1837. He graduated from the University of Virginia, where he taught Latin until the American Civil War. He served in the Confederate States Army through the war, attaining the rank of Major.
After the war, he studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria and became a priest. He was rector of Christ Church, Baltimore. He was consecrated as the Bishop of Kentucky on January 27, 1875, following the death of Bishop Benjamin Bosworth Smith.
At his death in 1904, Dudley was chairman of the House of Bishops and chancellor of Sewanee: The University of the South.
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See also

List of Succession of Bishops for the Episcopal Church, USA
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