Grieg Taber

Grieg Taber was a prominent Anglo-Catholic priest in the American Episcopal Church during the twentieth century. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska and educated at the former St. Stephen's College, Annandale-on-Hudson and the former Seabury Divinity School. He was ordained to the diaconate in June 1919 and to the priesthood in December 1919. Initially a priest-educator, Taber was master at the Shattuck School in Faribault, Minnesota from 1918 to 1920, and chaplain and instructor in History and Greek at the Trinity-Pawling School.
Taber achieved national prominence as an Anglo-Catholic leader as rector of Parish of [All Saints Ashmont|All Saints Church, Ashmont, Dorchester, Massachusetts] and rector of Church of St. [Mary the Virgin (Manhattan)|St. Mary the Virgin, Times Square], from 1939 until his death in 1964. He was a trustee of St. Luke's Home for Destitute and Aged Women, treasurer-general of the American Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament from 1953 to 1963, and received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in 1940.
According to his obituary in the New York Times, Taber was a bachelor with a love of music who died of a heart attack at the Metropolitan Opera during Giacomo Puccini's Tosca. He was buried in Milton Cemetery, Massachusetts, beside his brother and mother.
He was succeeded by Donald L. Garfield.