Charles Tyler Olmstead (April 28, 1842 – March 26, 1924) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York from 1904 to 1924.

In 1853, he started attending the Brooks' Classical School located in Cincinnati, across the Ohio River from Newport.

Therefore, when the family moved back to New York state, settling in Lockport, he was ready to enter college.

[4][5] In 1862, Olmstead entered the Sophomore class at Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., an Episcopal Church school.

[1] Olmstead felt called to the ministry in the Episcopal Church, so he enrolled in the Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut.

While a student in the Berkeley Divinity School, Olmstead also tutored Latin and Greek at St. Stephen's College at Annandale during the academic year 1865–66.

"[1] A newspaper editorial about the election of Olmstead as Bishop Coadjutor praised him as "a man of brilliant scholarship and great activity" and as "a speaker of original and convincing power."

[5] In 1903, on Washington's birthday, Olmstead, while bishop coadjutor, addressed the 1903 banquet of the Board of Managers of the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York.

[12] A newspaper story dated October 13, 1905, was headlined "Bishop Olmstead Asks Clergymen of the Episcopal to Do All in Their Power to Keep Ladies from Showing Their Beautiful Hair."

Olmstead was quoted as saying, "Let at least this good custom of the mothers of Israel prevail, that they pray in public with covered heads.

"[13] In 1906, at the thirty-eighth annual convention of the Diocese of Central New York, in the Bishop's Address, Olmstead said,[14] The Church Of Jesus Christ should not be in alliance either with individuals or with corporations whose principles and methods are known to be illegal and corrupt.

"[15] On June 2, 1921, following the advice of his Standing Committee regarding irreconcilable differences between a rector and his vestry, Olmstead signed this order: "I hereby render my decision, that in accordance with the above report, the Rev.

[17] In the early part of 1924, Olmstead's health became so bad that he had to turn over most of his duties to his coadjutor Bishop Charles Fiske.