Edward Gayer Andrews

Edward Gayer Andrews (7 August 1825 – 31 December 1907) was a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.

He was born in New Hartford, New York (Oneida County). He was educated at Cazenovia Seminary, Cazenovia, New York, and at Wesleyan University, (B.A., 1847), where he became a member of the Mystical Seven. He was ordained in the Central New York Annual Conference of the M.E. Church, serving various pastorates there from 1848 until 1854. He was then appointed teacher and Principal (i.e., President) of the Cazenovia Seminary, where he remained until 1864. He then became Pastor in Stamford, Connecticut (1864-67), and in Brooklyn, New York (1867-72) until his election to the Episcopacy.

As Bishop he visited M.E. Missions in Europe and India (1876-77), in Mexico (1881) and in Japan, Korea and China (1889-90). He also was a delegate to the British and Irish Methodist Conference in 1894. He retired from the active episcopacy in 1904.

His theology was desribed as holding to the faith of his denomination for essentials of doctrine, but with deference to the results of Biblical scholarship. He has published semi-centennial addresses delivered in 1875 and 1881.

Bishop Andrews died 31 December 1907 in Brooklyn and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse, New York.

References

*"Andrews, Edward Gayer" in The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Samuel Macauley Jackson, D.D., LL.D., Editor-in-Chief, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1954. [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc01.a.html?term=andrews+edward+gayer]
*Death Notice in The Nashville Christian Advocate (official newspaper of the M.E.Church, South), January 10, 1908. [http://www.tngenweb.org/records/davidson/nca/nca08-02.htm]

ee also

*List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church