Bradford Hastings

William Bradford Turner Hastings (December 13, 1919 - December 2, 1992) was a suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut from 1981 to 1986. Born in Garden City, New York, on December 13, 1919, Hastings was the son of Reverend Alfred Abbott Hastings and Dorothy Quincy Turner. He attended Trinity-Pawling School and graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1941. Hastings married Virginia Floyd on July 31, 1942, and they had four children. He earned his Bachelor of Divinity from the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1943. Ordained as a deacon in 1943 and as a priest in 1944, Hastings served as rector of St. Paul's Church in Overland, Missouri, from 1943 to 1946, and as rector of Trinity Church in Con...