From The Living Church-The Rt. Rev. Robert Estill, IX Bishop of North Carolina, passed away October 9 at the age of 92, the Diocese of North Carolina announced.
Bishop Estill, a native of Kentucky, earned several degrees at the University of Kentucky, Episcopal Divinity School and Sewanee, the University of the South. After a decade as a parish priest in Kentucky, he served as a rector in Washington D.C. and Dallas, and as a faculty member at Virginia Theological Seminary, before being elected bishop coadjutor of the Diocese of North Carolina in 1980.
He succeeded the Rt. Rev. Thomas Fraser as the IX Bishop of North Carolina on January 27, 1983, when he was consecrated by the Most Rev. John M. Allin. He retired in 1994.
More here-
https://livingchurch.org/2019/10/11/robert-estill-retired-bishop-of-north-carolina-dies-at-92/
and here-
https://www.episcopalnewsservice.org/2019/10/14/rip-robert-estill-ninth-bishop-of-north-carolina-dies-at-92/
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