Service arrangements for The Right Reverend Frederick Hilborn Talbot are as follows:
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Visitation: 11:00 am
Memorial Service: 12 noon
Presiding Elder Earle Ifill, Worship Leader
Bishop John R. Bryant, Eulogist
Greater Bethel AME Church
1300 South Street
Nashville, TN 37212
(615) 256-1509
gbamec@aol.com
Rev. Walter W. Reid, Jr., Pastor
Services provided by:
Lewis & Wright Funeral Directors
2500 Clarksville Highway
Nashville, TN 37208-1060
Phone: 615-255-2371
FAX: 615-255-4926
Hotel reservations may be made at the Marriott Airport Hotel, 600 Marriott Drive, Nashville, TN. Telephone (800) 228-9290 or (615) 889-9300. Block name “Greater Bethel Group.” Reservations must be made by May1st. Room rate for Monday, May 13th is $209.00.
Expressions of sympathy:
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be sent to:
Bishop Frederick H. Talbot Scholarship Fund
Allen University
1530 Harden Street
Columbia, SC 29204
*Envelopes will be available at the church!
Resolutions and letters of condolence may be faxed or emailed to Greater Bethel AME Church:
Phone (615) 256-1509
Fax: (615) 726-8534
Email: gbamec@aol.com
The Right Reverend Frederick Hilborn Talbot, a native of Guyana, was elected and consecrated the 90th bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1972, serving Episcopal districts in the Caribbean, South America and Europe (16th), Georgia (6th), Arkansas/Oklahoma (12th), and Kentucky/Tennessee (13th) until his retirement in 2004. He was a driving force behind the growth of the denomination’s “Sons of Allen” men-in-ministry movement.
Talbot has had a long and distinguished record of service not only as an AME bishop but also as a pastor and teacher, in the diplomatic service of Guyana, and in ecumenical relations. He began his career as a teacher of Latin and French in Guyana and subsequently held teaching positions at Payne Theological Seminary in Xenia, Ohio and in the English Department at Shorter College in North Little Rock, Arkansas, where he also served as college minister. Talbot held pastorates in the Little Mountain Circuit in South Carolina, and in three congregations in Guyana. From 1971-73 he served as the representative for Guyana to the United Nations, followed by two years as the resident ambassador for Guyana to the United States. From 1975-80 he served Guyana further as resident high commissioner to Jamaica and high commissioner to the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada and Barbados and ambassador to Haiti.
His ecumenical activity included service as president of the Guyana Council of Churches, Caribbean coordinator in family life education for Church World Service, delegate to the 6th General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Vancouver, Canada, president of the Georgia Council of Churches, and ecumenical officer of the A.M.E. in a number of locales in the Middle East, Europe, Australia and Asia.
The holder of numerous honorary degrees, Talbot has written three books, composed texts, and music for several hymns, and produced a musical CD entitled A Bishop Sings of His Faith.
He held a B.A. from Allen University in Columbia, SC, the M.Div. from Yale Divinity School, an S.T.M. from the Pacific School of Religion, and a D.Min. from Columbia Theological Seminary.
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A naturalized citizen of the U.S., he was married to Dr. Sylvia Ross Talbot of St. Croix since 1958. Bishop Talbot died on April 11, 2019.
