Quintart, Charles Todd

Charles T. Quintard, studied for the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church under Bishop James Otey and was ordained as a priest on January 6, 1856. He was rector of the Church of the Advent, Nashville, until he was consecrated the second bishop of Tennessee on October 11, 1865. He served in that position until his death in 1898. During the Civil War, Quintard was a chaplain and surgeon for the Confederate army. As bishop, he was instrumental in the revival of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Tennessee.