Chauncey Bunce Brewster (1848-1941)


 * 5th Episcopal Bishop of Connecticut Diocese

Biography
Rev Chauncey Bunce Brewster was the fifth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.

Brewster was born in Windham, Connecticut, to the Reverend Joseph Brewster and Sarah Jane Bunce Brewster. His father was rector of St. Paul's Church in Windham and later became rector of Christ Church in New Haven, Connecticut. His younger brother was the future bishop Benjamin Brewster (1860-1941).

Brewster attended Hopkins Grammar School, then went to Yale College, where he graduated in 1868. At Yale he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and was a member of Skull and Bones.[1] He attended Yale's Berkeley Divinity School the following year.[1] He was consecrated as a bishop on October 28, 1897. He was a coadjutor bishop before being diocesan bishop from 1899 to 1928.

Mayflower Ancestry
He was a direct descendant of both Love Brewster, a passenger with his father, mother and brother, Wrestling, aboard the Mayflower and a founder of the town of Bridgewater, Massachusetts; and of Elder William Brewster, the Pilgrim colonist leader and spiritual elder of the Plymouth Colony, and passenger aboard the Mayflower and one of the signers of the Mayflower Compact.