About Roy Clyde Clark
Lived 1920 – 2014 (aged 93). Roy Clyde Clark was an American theologian.
Roy Clyde Clark (July 24, 1920 - May 27, 2014) was an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980.
Early life Clark was born on July 24, 1920, in Mobile, Alabama. His father, C. C. Clark, was a Methodist minister in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Clark earned the B.A. degree from Millsaps College in 1941 and the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1944.
Personal life and death Clark married Esther Maddox of McComb, Mississippi, on 7 June 1945. They had two daughters, Lynn Blanton Clark and Susan McEwen Clark, and two grandsons. After Esther's death on 8 April 1991, Bishop Clark married Marion Salisbury Hall on 4 April 1992.
Clark died on May 27, 2014, in Nashville, Tennessee.
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American bishop
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Roy Clyde Clark was born on 24 July 1920 in Mobile.
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Roy Clyde Clark died on 27 May 2014 in Nashville.
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Roy Clyde Clark was a theologian.
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