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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = John Hazen White
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| title = [[Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana|Bishop of Northern Indiana]]
| image = The Rt. Rev. John Hazen White.jpg
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| church = [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]]
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| diocese = [[Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana|Northern Indiana]]
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| elected = 1899
| term = 1899–1925
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| successor = [[Campbell Gray]]
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| ordination = May 28, 1876
| ordained_by = [[John Williams (bishop of Connecticut)|John Williams]]
| consecration = May 1, 1895
| consecrated_by = [[Daniel S. Tuttle]]
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1849|03|10}}
| birth_place = [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]], [[United States]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1925|03|16|1849|03|10}}
| death_place = [[Seabreeze, Florida]], [[United States]]
| buried = [[St. James Memorial Chapel (Howe, Indiana)]]
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| nationality = [[Americans|American]]
| religion = [[Anglicanism|Anglican]]
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| parents = Moses Hazen White & Mary Miller Williams
| spouse = Marie Louise Holbrook
| children = 7
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| previous_post = [[Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis|Bishop of Indiana]] <small>''(1860-1865)''</small>
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| alma_mater = [[Kenyon College]]
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'''John Hazen White''' (March 10, 1849 - March 16, 1925) was an episcopal bishop in Indiana and the first bishop of [[Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana|Northern Indiana]] in [[The Episcopal Church]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/imh/article/view/6788/7297 |title=Episcopal Bishops in Indiana by Sarah S. Pratt | Lynch | Indiana Magazine of History |website=Scholarworks.iu.edu |access-date=2016-12-27}}</ref>

==Biography==
White was born in [[Cincinnati]], [[Ohio]] on March 10, 1849, the son of Moses Hazen White and Mary Miller Williams. He was educated at the public schools of Cincinnati, graduating from Woodward High in 1867. He then entered [[Kenyon College]], from where he earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in 1872. In 1875, he graduated with a [[Bachelor of Divinity]], after studying at [[Berkeley Divinity School]].<ref>{{cite journal |date=1988 |title=White, John Hazen|journal=A History of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis, 1838-1988 |pages=58}}</ref>

White was ordained deacon on June 4, 1875, and priest on May 28, 1876. He then became assistant rector of St Andrew's Church in [[Meriden, Connecticut]], while in 1878 he became rector of Grace Church in [[Old Saybrook, Connecticut]] and in 1881 of [[Christ Episcopal Church (Joliet, Illinois)|Christ Church]] in [[Joliet, Illinois]]. He married Marie Louise Holbrook on April 23, 1879, and together had seven children.<ref>{{cite journal |date=1939 |title=White, John Hazen|journal=Indiana and Indianans, by Jacob Piatt Dunn |volume=3|pages=1285}}</ref>

White was elected Bishop of Indiana on February 6, 1895, on the first ballot. He was consecrated on May 1, 1895, by Presiding Bishop [[Daniel S. Tuttle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950502.2.49 |title=San Francisco Call 2 May 1895 — California Digital Newspaper Collection |website=Cdnc.ucr.edu |access-date=2016-12-27}}</ref> With the creation of the [[Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana|Diocese of Michigan City]] in 1898, White was elected to serve as its first bishop, where he was installed on April 25, 1899. In 1912, he took upon himself the rectorship of [[Cathedral of St. James (South Bend, Indiana)|St James' Church]] in [[South Bend, Indiana]], a post he retained till 1920. White died in office on March 16, 1925, in [[Seabreeze, Florida]], where he had been spending the winter. He died as a result of a heart disease, followed a period of ill health.<ref>{{cite journal |date=1925 |title=JOHN HAZEN WHITE|journal=Proceedings of the Supreme Council |pages=217}}</ref>

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