Born: October 8, 1882, Richmond, Virginia.
Died: April 23, 1969, Alexandria, Virginia.
Buried: Virginia Theological Seminary Cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia.
Bowie attended Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (BA, Phi Beta Kappa, 1904; MA 1905).
While there, he co-edited the Crimson magazine with future American president Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Bowie received a BD degree from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1908. He was ordained an Episcopal deacon in 1908, and priest in 1909.
He was rector of Emmanuel Church, Greenwood, Virginia (1911–23); St. Paul’s Church, Richmond, Virginia; and Grace Church, New York City (1923–39).
He served as a hospital chaplain in France in World War I, and in 1939, became Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary, Manhattan, New York.
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