William C. R. Sheridan
William Cockburn Russell Sheridan (March 25, 1917 – September 24, 2005) was the fifth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana and served from 1972 to 1987. He was born in New York, New York on March 25, 1917, the son of John Russell Sheridan and Gertrude Magdalen Herley Sheridan. He died September 24, 2005, at his home in Culver, Indiana and was buried in New Oakhill Cemetery, Plymouth, Indiana. Early life and education Sheridan grew up in Baltimore where he attended St. Paul's School Brooklandville, Maryland. He attended one year of college at the University of Virginia but due to lack of funds during the Great Depression had to drop out. He was accepted at Nashotah House Seminary in Wisconsin and attended Carroll College for his undergraduate work. He received a BA from Carroll in 1939. Bishop Sheridan would later obtain a M.Div from Nashotah House in the 1960s. Ordination and Parish Ministry William Sheridan was ordained to the deaconate on January 1, 1940, and to the priesthood on June 28, 1943, both in the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. He assisted at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Towson, Maryland from 1942 to 1943. From 1943 to 1944 he