title: Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs
text: Hoyt McWhorter Dobbs (November 16, 1878, in Antioch, Alabama – December 9, 1954, in Shreveport, Louisiana) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South and The Methodist Church, elected in 1922.
  
  Prior to his election to the episcopacy, he served as a professor of Christian doctrine and as the dean (1916–20) of the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University, University Park, Dallas County, Texas.
  
  In 1935, he became one of the founding members of Theta Phi, the professional honor society for clergy.
  
  References
   Thomas, Mary Martha Hosford, Southern Methodist University: Founding and Early Years. 1974.
   "Friends of God", TIME, Jan. 28, 1935; accessed 12/5/06
  
  See also
  List of bishops of the United Methodist Church
  
  American Methodist Episcopal, South bishops
  Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
  1878 births
  1954 deaths
  Presidents of United Methodist seminaries
  20th-century Methodist bishops