William Taylor (bishop)

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Bishop William Taylor, depicted on steel-engraved frontispiece portrait of his book, Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, California; Embracing Incidents, Triumphant Death Scenes, Etc. Publisher: Phillips & Hunt (New York: circa 1860s) 394 pages, edited by W. P. Strickland.

William Taylor (1821-1902) was an American Methodist Episcopal missionary bishop. He was born in Rockbridge, Virginia, and entered the Baltimore Conference in 1843. Bishop Taylor traveled to San Francisco, California in 1849, and organized the first Methodist church in San Francisco. Between 1856 and 1883 he traveled in many parts of the world as an evangelist. He was elected Missionary Bishop of Africa in 1884, and retired in 1896. He wrote:

• Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco (1857)
• Christian Adventures in South Africa (1867)
• Four Years' Campaign in India (1875)
• Our South American Cousins (1878)
• Self-Supporting Missions in India (1882)
• The Story of My Life (1895)
• Flaming Torch in Darkest Africa (1898)

[edit] See also

• List of Bishops of the United Methodist Church

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
• Taylor University: The first 150 Years ISBN 0962118729

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