Charles Carpenter

Charles Colcock Jones Carpenter (September 2, 1899 – June 28, 1969) was consecrated a bishop of the Alabama Episcopal Diocese on June 24, 1938, and served until 1968. He was one of the authors of the "A Call for Unity" letter published during Martin Luther King Jr.'s incarceration in a Birmingham, Alabama jail, asking him and his “outsider” followers to refrain from demonstrating in the streets of Birmingham. Personal Carpenter was born in Augusta, Georgia, and often went by C. C. J. Carpenter. He was a son of the Rev. Samuel Barstow Carpenter and his wife Ruth Berrien (Jones), née Mary Ruth Jones, daughter of Charles Colcock Jones Jr. He married in 1928 to Alexandra Morrison, with whom he had four children. Education and ministry Carpenter was a student at Lawrenceville School from 1915 to 1917. He then studied at Princeton University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1921 and with a Bachelor of Divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1926. He was then ordained a deacon on June 24, 1925, and a priest on June 24, 1926. He then became rector of Grace Church in Waycross, Georgia, while in 1928 he became Archdeacon of Georgia. From 1929 to 1936 he served as rector of St John's Church in Savannah, Georgia, becoming rector of the Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama in 1936. Ceremony at University of the South At a special chapel service at the University of the South to celebrate Jefferson Davis' birthday, the university's Ceremonial Mace, containing the Confederate flag, was consecrated to the memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, by Bishop Carpenter.