Francis William Lickfield (February 9, 1908 – December 14, 1998) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Quincy.
He studied at Temple University and then at the Philadelphia Divinity School in New York, from where he earned a Bachelor of Theology in 1933.
[1] Lickfield was ordained deacon in June 1933 and priest in December 1933,by Bishop Francis M. Taitt of Pennsylvania.
In 1936, he became a member of the diocesan department for Christian Education, while in 1938 he became a priest of the Bush Brotherhood.
[4] In 1965, he objected to Bishop Pike's initiative to have women deacons distribute Communion.