Wilson Reiff Stearly

Wilson Reiff Stearly (May 8, 1869 – November 3, 1941) was the fourth bishop of Newark in The Episcopal Church from 1927 to 1935.

He was awarded a Doctor of Divinity from Kenyon College in 1915 and from Case Western Reserve University in 1916.

He joined the Episcopal Church and was ordained deacon on June 10, 1900, and a priest on July 31, 1900, by Bishop William Andrew Leonard of Ohio.

In 1912 he became rector of St Luke's Church in Montclair, New Jersey.

Stearly was elected Suffragan Bishop of Newark in May 1915 and was consecrated in St Luke's Church on October 21, 1915, by Edwin Stevens Lines, Bishop of Newark.