Canon Dubois, Former ACU Head, Dies
Episcopal News Service. June 26, 1980 [80230]
Long Beach, Calif. -- The Rev. Canon Albert Julius duBois, who served as Executive Director of the American Church Union from 1950 until he retired in 1974, died at the Memorial Hospital Medical Center here on June 6 after a long illness.
Canon duBois, who was well known throughout the entire Anglican Communion as well as the Episcopal Church, served as the editor of the American Church News during the 24 years he headed the Church Union, an organization which endeavors to maintain the catholic and apostolic heritage of Anglicanism. In 1973 he was named Honorary President for Life of the Church Union.
For three years following his retirement in 1974, he served as professor of liturgies and church history at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Kentucky at Lexington. In 1975 he became national coordinator of Episcopalians United and edited its newspaper. In 1977 he founded Anglicans United and became its first president and editor of its newspaper.
Canon duBois left the Episcopal Church following its General Convention of 1976. From that time until his death he was actively working through Anglicans United and the Pro-Diocese of St. Augustine of Canterbury, of which he was an organizer, for the reunion of some Episcopalians and former Episcopalians with the Roman Catholic Church.
Canon duBois completed his seminary training in 1931 at General Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained deacon and priest that same year in the Diocese of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He served parishes in Wisconsin, and during the years just before and after World War II, he was rector of Ascension and St. Agnes Parish in Washington, D. C. During the war he served as a army chaplain with the rank of lieutenant colonel, including time in General Patton's Corps.
Canon duBois, whose death came three days before his 74th birthday, was buried in Neenah, Wis., where he was born in 1906. A memorial fund has been established in his honor.