Elliot Griffin Thomas
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Elliot Griffin Thomas (15 July 1926 – 28 February 2019) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Saint Thomas from 1993 to 1999.[1]
Life
Thomas was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on July 15, 1926. His family had lived in Tortola, British Virgin Islands, and returned there in 1934. Thomas was enrolled in the Methodist Day School in Road Town and as a teenager attended Charlotte Amalie High School, St. Thomas, where he graduated in 1945.
Following his graduation, Thomas served as a Clerk of the Municipal Homestead Commission and Clerk of the Adult Evening School in St. Thomas. In 1945, he enrolled in the College of Pharmacy at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1950. After qualifying as a registered pharmacist in Detroit, Michigan, he joined the United States Army and was assigned to FranMort-Hoechst and to Munich. After returning to the Virgin Islands, he became a pharmacist in St. Thomas. From 1954 to 1959, Thomas worked as a pharmacist with the Veterans Administration in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he also studied part-time at Gannon College, majoring in Business Administration.
On October 2, 1957, Thomas converted to Catholicism and was received into the Catholic Church at St. Peter's Cathedral in Erie, Pennsylvania. He began his studies for the priesthood in 1982 at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands on June 6, 1986, and was appointed Episcopal Vicar for the diocese and Pastor of Holy Family Church.
Thomas served as pastor of St. Ann's Church on St. Croix, pastor of Holy Family Church, Dean of the Diocese and the Vicar General. The Diocesan Consulters of the Diocese of St. Thomas unanimously elected Thomas to serve as Diocesan Administrator, a post he filled from August 11, 1992, until he was named as the Third Bishop of the Virgin Islands on October 30, 1993. He was consecrated and installed at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Saint Thomas on December 12, 1993. Thomas resigned in June 1999.[2]
See also
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References
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External links
- Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Thomas Official Site
- National Black Catholic Congress profile of Elliot Griffin Thomas
- Catholic Hierarchy website profile of Elliot Griffin Thomas
Episcopal succession
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- 1926 births
- 2019 deaths
- Military personnel from Pittsburgh
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- Howard University alumni
- Gannon University alumni
- 20th-century American pharmacists
- African-American pharmacists
- Converts to Roman Catholicism from Protestantism
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the United States
- African-American Roman Catholic bishops
- 20th-century American Roman Catholic bishops
- Roman Catholic bishops of Saint Thomas
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