Charles Minnigerode Beckwith

Charles Minnigerode Beckwith (June 2, 1851 – April 18, 1928) was fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama from 1902 till 1928.

In 1879, he enrolled at the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut and graduated in 1881.

[1] He was ordained to the diaconate and priesthood in 1881 by his uncle, Bishop John W. Beckwith of Georgia.

While rector he was elected Assistant Bishop of Texas but declined the appointment.

He was then consecrated in St Paul's Church in Selma, Alabama on December 17, 1902, by Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley of Kentucky.