Christopher Edwards Gadsden (November 25, 1785 – June 24, 1852) was the fourth Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina.

[1] Beginning in his junior year, Gadsden attended Yale University, graduating in 1804.

[5] Gadsden was the 35th bishop in the ECUSA, and was consecrated by Alexander Viets Griswold, George Washington Doane, and Samuel Allen McCoskry.

Gadsden was active in expanding the membership of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, usually visiting each congregation once a year.

In 1852, at the diocese convention, he announced that ill health would prevent him from continuing his ministry, and he died shortly thereafter, in June of that year.