George Harvey Bickley

George Harvey Bickley (25 February 1868 – 24 December 1924) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1920.

Birth and Family

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was from an old Philadelphia family, his father and grandfather being local elders and church builders. Indeed, his grandfather gave up a fortune and was disowned for becoming a Methodist.

George entered the Traveling Ministry of the Philadelphia Annual Conference in 1890. His uncle and six of his cousins were also in the Methodist ministry. One of these cousins was Bishop Charles Wesley Burns. Rev. Bickley was at one time chairman of Philadelphia Sunday meetings. He was Area Secretary of the Centenary of American Methodism. Also prior to his election to the Episcopacy, he served as a Pastor and a District Superintendent.

Bishop Bickley died on 24 December 1924 in Philadelphia. He was buried in St. James Cemetery in Olney.

elected Writings

*Address: "The Problem of the City," Pennsylvania Convention, Methodist Men, in Better Things, C.F. Armitage, Editor, 1916.
*Sermons and Addresses which are part of the Methodist Bishops' Collection.

Biography

Funeral Addresses given by Bishops Berry, Leonard and Welch, typed, also in the Methodist Bishops' Collection.

ee also

*List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church