Alfred Magill Randolph (August 31, 1836 – April 6, 1918) was the first bishop of Southern Virginia in The Episcopal Church.

[2] After education by private tutors, Alfred Randolph attended the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, from which he graduated in 1855.

After graduation, the newly ordained deacon was assigned to St. George's Church in Fredericksburg, Virginia, whose long-serving rector, Dr. McGuire, suffered a fatal heart attack just two weeks later.

The young minister took charge of the parish so well that five months later he was made rector at age 22, shortly after being ordained an Episcopal priest in 1860.

During the American Civil War, Fredericksburg was subject to repeated shelling and severe fighting, so Rev.

Randolph believed strongly in education, including for African Americans and women, and became President of the Bishop Payne Divinity School in Petersburg, as well as President of the Boards of Trustees of St. Paul's Normal and Industrial School in Lawrenceville and of the Sweet Briar Institute in Amherst.

Tucker also presided over the funeral service at St. Paul's Church in Norfolk, which included a Confederate honor guard.