Theodore Harper McCrea (March 27, 1908 – September 22, 1986) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas, serving from 1962 to 1975.
He was educated at the high school in New Trier, Minnesota, and then at the University of Minnesota from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1929. he also earned a Masters of Arts in 1930 from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Sacred Theology in 1943 from the General Theological Seminary.
McCrea was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Church on June 7, 1943, at the Church of the Advent in Boston by the Bishop of Massachusetts Henry Knox Sherrill,[2] and priest in December of the same year by Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island.
[3] McCrea was elected Suffragan Bishop of Dallas on September 14, 1962, on the seventh ballot during a special convention which took place at the Church if St Michael and All Angels in Dallas.
[4] He was consecrated on December 4, 1962, in St Matthew's Cathedral by Presiding Bishop Arthur C.