Executive Assistant to Bishop for Armed Forces Named
Diocesan Press Service. May 10, 1973 [73134]
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Col. Charles L. Burgreen, U.S. Army (Ret.), has been appointed Executive Assistant to the Episcopal Bishop for the Armed Forces. In his new post, he will serve on the staff of the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church in New York City.
Chaplain Burgreen retired from the U.S. Army on March 31, 1973, after 22 years of continuous active duty.
As Executive Assistant to the Bishop for the Armed Forces, he will act as coordinator for the activities of the 118 active duty Episcopal chaplains in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Veterans Administration. These military clergymen, who come under the spiritual supervision of the Bishop for the Armed Forces, the Rt. Rev. Clarence E. Hobgood, are stationed all over the world.
Chaplain Burgreen will assist Bishop Hobgood in setting up professional training conferences for the chaplains, as well as spiritual leadership programs for lay persons in Berchtesgaden, Germany, each year.
He will also act as liaison agent with the Offices of the Chiefs of Chaplains. The procurement, screening and eventual endorsement of clergymen to these military offices constitutes a major part of his duties.
Chaplain Burgreen, a native of Davis, W.Va., received his B.A. degree from Maryville College, Maryville, Tenn., and his M. Div. degree from the School of Theology at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.
Ordained a priest in 1948, he served as curate and priest-in-charge of several parishes in Florida before he entered the U.S. Army in 1951.
As a chaplain, he was stationed in Germany, Japan and Vietnam as well as a number of posts in the United States.
He is married to the former Helen Florence Lord and they have two daughters.