Harold E. Sawyer

Harold Everett Sawyer (December 15, 1890 – January 18, 1969) was an American prelate who served as Bishop of Erie, Pennsylvania, from 1946 to 1951.

He was ordained priest by the Bishop of Connecticut Chauncey B. Brewster on May 15, 1917, in Christ Church, New Haven.

On October 1, 1917, he became rector of St Agnes' Chapel, part of Trinity Parish in New York City.

[2] Sawyer was elected Bishop of Erie on September 4, 1946, on the fifth ballot, during a special diocesan convention.

[3] He was consecrated on November 6, 1946, in Grace Church, by the Presiding Bishop Henry St. George Tucker.