Claude Charles Vaché (August 4, 1926 – November 1, 2009) was an American prelate of The Episcopal Church, who served as the seventh Bishop of Southern Virginia.
He served in the U.S. Navy as World War II ended, and then received a Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa society.
[2] He then served as deacon-in-charge and later rector of St Michael's Church in Bon Air, Virginia, following his ordination as priest on June 11, 1953, also by Rt.
Vaché came to embrace television, giving weekly theological commentary on a local station, as well as served on the original board of directors of Westminster Canterbury retirement home in Virginia Beach, and numerous other posts in the diocese.
James Holt Newsom, Jr., who after a business career, became a priest and eventually rector of historic St. Paul's Church in Suffolk, Virginia for 29 years.
[9] After his retirement from the Diocese of Southern Virginia (and the accession of Frank Vest as his successor), Vaché continued his ministry of reconciliation.