Logan H. Roots (bishop)

Roots later attended the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, graduating in 1896 and was subsequently ordained deacon.

In the autumn of 1896 Roots crossed the Pacific to start his new life as a church missionary in China.

Roots was consecrated at Emmanuel Church in Boston on November 14, 1904, as the second Bishop of Hankow, succeeding James Addison Ingle.

The Protestant Episcopal Church Mission in Hankow underwent severe challenges during Roots' period as bishop; Hankow being captured in 1912 during the Xinhai Revolution and the adjacent district of Wuhan becoming one of the main battlegrounds between the imperial and revolutionary forces.

St. Paul's Cathedral in Hankow was used as a hospital to treat the battle wounded and normal church activity was very much restricted.