Charles Francis Hall (bishop)

Charles Francis Hall (April 20, 1908 - May 17, 1992) was the sixth Bishop of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church from 1948 to 1973.

[1] Hall was born on April 28, 1908, in Dorchester, New Brunswick, Canada, the son of the Reverend Edwin A.

He received education from Springfield College and later at Yale University in the School of Divinity.

He was consecrated on January 15, 1948 by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill in St Paul's Church, Concord, New Hampshire.

In 1965, when Jonathan Daniels, a seminarian and member of St James' Church in Keene, New Hampshire, was shot to death during voter-registration efforts in Selma, Alabama, Bishop Hall flew down to Alabama to deliver a human-rights sermon in a local church.