In 1962, he also published a bicentennial history of the historic Portsmouth parish (founded in the 17th century). Vaché came to embrace television, giving weekly theological commentary on a local station, as well as served on the original board of directors of Westminster Canterbury retirement home in Virginia Beach, and numerous other posts in the diocese. Board of Education involved Farmville's schools). Vaché served as its rector for 19 years, including during Virginia's Massive Resistance crisis, during which the Byrd Organization opposed integration of Virginia's schools (and one of the companion cases to Brown v. Called as rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Portsmouth in 1957, Rev. Christopher's School in nearby Richmond, the state capital. During this time, he also served as chaplain to St. He then served as deacon-in-charge and later rector of St Michael's Church in Bon Air, Virginia, following his ordination as priest on June 11, 1953, also by Rt. Gunn of Southern Virginia ordained Vaché deacon on June 11, 1952, in Johns Memorial Church in Farmville, Virginia. He graduated from the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois in 1952 with a Master of Divinity.īishop George P. Navy as World War II ended, and then received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society. Early life and education īorn in New Bern, North Carolina, Vaché was the son of the Reverend Jean Andrew Vaché, an Episcopal priest and his wife Edith Fitzwilson. University of North Carolina at Chapel HillĬlaude Charles Vaché (Aug– November 1, 2009) was an American prelate of The Episcopal Church, who served as the seventh Bishop of Southern Virginia. Trinity Episcopal Church (Portsmouth, Virginia)Ĭoadjutor Bishop of Southern Virginia (1976-1978)
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