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Harold L. Wright Consecrated Bishop in New York

Diocesan Press Service. February 14, 1974 [74044]

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- With four of the Episcopal Church's five active black Bishops assisting, the Rev. Harold Louis Wright, Suffragan Bishop-elect of the Diocese of New York, was consecrated on Saturday, February 2, in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.

Bishop Wright, 44, was elected suffragan on the first ballot at a special convention of the diocese on November 17, 1973. At the time he was assistant to the Bishop of New York for ministries, a post he had held since 1971.

The Right Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., Bishop of New York, was the principal consecrator, assisted by the Right Rev. Horace W.B. Donegan, retired Bishop of New York; the Right Rev. J. Stuart Wetmore, Suffragan Bishop of New York; the Right Rev. John M. Burgess, Bishop of Massachusetts; the Right Rev. Quintin Primo, Suffragan Bishop of Chicago; the Right Rev. John Walker, Suffragan Bishop of Washington ; and the Right Rev. Richard Martin, Suffragan Bishop of Long Island. The Presiding Bishop-Elect, the Right Rev. John M. Allin of Mississippi, joined eight other bishops in the laying on of hands.

Born and educated in Boston, Bishop Wright graduated from Boston University in 1954. He received his S. T. B. from General Theological Seminary in 1957 and was ordained to the priesthood in the Diocese of Long Island in the same year. From 1957 to 1969, he served as vicar, later rector, of the Church of the Resurrection in East Elmhurst, New York. From 1969 to 1971, he served on the staff of the Episcopal Church's Executive Council as coordinator for training and field education in the Professional Leadership Development section. The Bishop is married and has four sons.

(NOTE: A photograph of Bishop Wright is enclosed.)