Albert R. Stuart

Albert Rhett Stuart (January 20, 1906 - April 17, 1973), born in Washington, DC, was the Sixth Bishop of Georgia.

Albert Rhett Stuart was consecrated as the sixth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Georgia on October 20, 1954, in St. Pauls, Augusta.

[2]He went on to tell that Diocesan Convention that there were six steps needed for the Diocese to "fulfill her responsibility in this generation and improve her evangelistic witness."

He named these as: Henry Louttit, recalls in his booklet, Saints of the Diocese of Georgia how Bishop Stuart was often the only white voice for integration in Savannah willing to speak on TV.

He remembers him speaking up for integration on a visit to Trinity Episcopal Church in Stateboro saying,This is a free country.

The Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart at left taking part in the consecration of William Evan Sanders to be Bishop of Tennessee