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Mansfield Appointed Bexley Hall Dean

Episcopal News Service. August 31, 1977 [77278]

ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- The Rev. Richard Huntington Mansfield, Jr., of Oxford, Ohio, has been appointed dean of Bexley Hall, the seminary of the Episcopal Church which is a member of the Colgate Rochester Divinity School-Bexley Hall-Crozer Theological Seminary cluster of graduate theological schools in Rochester, N.Y.

Dr. Leon Pacala, president of the schools, announced that "as dean of Bexley Hall, Mr. Mansfield will be the principal liaison for that seminary with the Church and its bishops, with alumni and alumnae of Bexley Hall, and will serve Episcopal students in their nurture and guidance, and in their relationships with the Church. Mr. Mansfield continues a succession of distinguished leaders in this post, and we look forward to his leadership in our midst. "

Mr. Mansfield since 1970 has been rector of Holy Trinity Church, Oxford, and has been active in campus ministry at Miami University. A native of Scarsdale, N.Y., he attended the Eaglebrook School and the Hotchkiss School, is a graduate of Rollins College, and earned the Master of Sacred Theology degree in 1963 from the Berkeley Divinity Scool at Yale.

After graduation from seminary, Mr. Mansfield joined the faculty of St. Andrews School, Boca Raton, Fla., where he taught theology and history, and was coach of the tennis team. He then served from 1966-70 as curate at St. Matthew's Church, Bedford, N.Y., prior to his call to Holy Trinity.

Ordained to the priesthood in 1966, Mr. Mansfield has served on a number of commissions and committees of the Dioceses of New York and of Southern Ohio, and has served also with community groups in New York and Ohio concerned with drug abuse, crisis intervention and mental health.

Bexley Hall is related to the Episcopal Church, and Colgate Rochester and Crozer are related to the American Baptist Churches, U.S.A., and are multidenominational. The cluster serves students from more than 20 Protestant denominations, the Anglican Communion, and the Roman Catholic and Jewish communities.

As dean of Bexley Hall, Mr. Mansfield succeeds the Rev. Dr. Hays H. Rockwell, who left the seminary in 1976 to become rector of St. James' Church in New York City. The Rev. Almus Thorp of Rochester, who was dean during the period when Bexley Hall moved from Gambier, Ohio, in 1968 to affiliate with Colgate Rochester, served as interim dean for the past academic year.

Dean Mansfield and Mrs. Mansfield have three sons and a daughter.