Paul Clement Matthews (December 25, 1866 – January 17, 1954) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey, serving from 1915 to 1937.
[1] He was born in Glendale, Ohio, the son of Stanley Matthews, an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and Mary Ann Black.
[2] He was educated at St Paul's school in Concord, New Hampshire and later at Princeton College.
He was ordained a priest on October 18, 1891, by Bishop George Worthington of Nebraska and retained his post at the Church of the Advent till 1895.
After a trip to the Holy Land, he became rector of St Luke's Church in Cincinnati, Ohio where he remained till 1904.