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George Roe Van De Water (April 25, 1854 – March 15, 1925) was an Episcopal priest and a major proponent of the compatibility of Freemasonry with Christianity. A prominent American of Dutch descent, he was a graduate of the General Theological Seminary and a member of the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York and the Holland Society of New York.
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean.
William Henry Vibbert (October 1, 1839 – August 27, 1918) was a prominent American Hebraist and priest of the Episcopal Church. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he was educated at the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut, Trinity College, Hartford (1862, ΔΨ and ΦΒΚ) and Berkeley Divinity School in Middletown, Connecticut.
II New York: 10 Samuel Parker: 2 5 8 9 [10] 1804 II Massachusetts: 11 John Henry Hobart: 2 3 8 [11] 1811 III New York: 12 Alexander Viets Griswold: 2 3 8 [12] 1811 Eastern Diocese (simultaneously III Massachusetts, III Rhode Island and I New Hampshire). [N 2] [N 3] PB5: 13 Theodore Dehon: 2 8 11 [13] 1812 II South Carolina: 14 Richard Channing ...
The Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York City, opened in 1911. In the 1830s and 1840s the Oxford Movement caused controversies and divisions within the diocese, as it did elsewhere within the Episcopal Church and the broader Anglican communion. In New York, the divisions crystallized in a dispute over the ordination of Arthur Carey.
The son of an Episcopal priest who was a founder of the New York Ecclesiological Society, [2] he was born in Brooklyn, New York. In 1854, he graduated from Columbia College, where he was a member of Psi Upsilon. [3] Congdon was apprenticed to John W. Priest, [4] and following Priest's death, assumed his practice, located at the time in Newburgh ...
Samuel Provoost was born in New York City, New York to John Provoost and Eva Rutgers on 26 February 1742. He was baptized on 28 February 1742 (The Roosevelt Genealogy, 1649–1902). He was a descendant of William Provoost, who was of a Huguenot family (some of the early settlers in Quebec).
The Reverend Dr. Hutchens Chew (H.C.) Bishop (1859 [1] – May 17, 1937 [3]) was an Episcopal priest who spent most of his career in New York City. He was rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Harlem for 47 years. The church is the oldest black Episcopal parish in New York. The church was founded by abolitionists who laid the first stone ...