Allen J. Miller
American bishop
Allen Jerome Miller (April 10, 1901 – April 24, 1991) was an American prelate who served as the fifth Bishop of Easton between 1949 and 1966.
Early life and education
Miller was born in Jersey City, New Jersey on April 10, 1901, the son of Frank O. Miller and Julia Louise Hilldring. He was educated at the William L. Dickinson High School. He then studied at Johnson College in Knoxville, Tennessee and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1924. He then attended the Yale Divinity School and graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity in 1930. That same year, he was made a Yale Fellow, being awarded the Hocker-Dwight Fellowship which enabled him to study abroad. He then studied at the University of Edinburgh from where he graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy with honors in 1934.
Ordained ministry
Initially Miller was ordained as a Presbyterian minister; however, after joining the Episcopal Church, he was ordained deacon in June 1934 by Bishop John Insley Blair Larned, Suffragan of Long Island, and priest in December 1934, by Bishop Ernest M. Stires of Long Island. On July 30, 1940, he married Etta Merrill Vigue. After ordination, he became priest-in-charge of St Anne's Church in Bridgehampton, New York, and in 1936 became assistant priest at St Thomas' Church in Washington D.C., until 1937.
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