Junius Horner

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The Rt. Rev. Junius Moore Horner
Church The Episcopal Church
Diocese Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina
Orders
Ordination 1891
by Theodore B. Lyman
Consecration December 28, 1898
Personal details
Born July 7, 1859
Oxford, North Carolina
Died April 5, 1933
Asheville, North Carolina

Junius Moore Horner (July 7, 1859 – April 5, 1933) was the first bishop of the Diocese of Western North Carolina in The Episcopal Church.[1]

Horner was a classmate of Woodrow Wilson at the University of Virginia. He also studied at Johns Hopkins University and the General Theological Seminary. He was made doctor of divinity at the University of the South. He was ordained deacon in 1890 and priest in 1891.[2]

In 1898, the General Convention of The Episcopal Church elected Horner to organize the Missionary District of Asheville. George Vanderbilt personally pledged to pay for the new bishop's position.[3]

Horner led the diocese until his death in 1933.

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