Hays Hamilton Rockwell
Hays Hamilton Rockwell is an American prelate who was ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri.
Rockwell was born in Detroit, Michigan and educated at Brown University and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge Massachusetts. He began his priestly career at St. George's School, Newport, Rhode Island and then moved to Rochester, New York where he served first as chaplain at the University of Rochester and then as dean at Bexley Hall Theological Seminary. From there he moved to New York City in 1976 where he served for fifteen years as the fourteenth rector of St. James' Episcopal Church on the Upper East Side. Under his leadership St. James' initiated a ministry for the homeless and became one of the first churches to divest from investments in apartheid South Africa.
In 1976 he was elected to the Anglican Consultative Council.
In 1991 he was elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of Missouri, becoming bishop diocesan in June 1993. In November 2000, he announced his plan to retire in the summer of 2002. He was succeeded by George Wayne Smith.
