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Massachusetts shares with the five other New England states the New England town form of government. All land in Massachusetts is divided among cities and towns and there are no unincorporated areas, population centers, or townships. Massachusetts has four kinds of public-school districts: local schools, regional schools, vocational-technical ...
The 129th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1882 during the governorship of John Davis Long. Robert R. Bishop served as president of the Senate and Charles J. Noyes served as speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is one of the nine original Dioceses of the Episcopal Church in the United States, officially organised in 1784, five years before the Episcopal Church itself, its first bishop was consecrated in 1797.
Coburn was again elected bishop, this time of Massachusetts, an election which he accepted. He was consecrated on October 2, 1976, by Presiding Bishop John Allin. In 1980 he was elected as the fifth dean of Cathedral Church of St. Paul (Boston) and served in this role concurrent with being bishop of the diocese. As Bishop of Massachusetts he ...
Barbara Harris became bishop suffragan of the diocese in 1989. It became the first diocese in the Episcopal Church to install an African American as diocesan bishop when John Melville Burgess was consecrated as the 12th bishop in 1970. [1] The current diocesan bishop is Alan M. Gates. He was consecrated bishop in 2014 and succeeded M. Thomas ...
Samuel Parker (bishop of Massachusetts) S. Tom Shaw (bishop) Henry Knox Sherrill; Charles Lewis Slattery; Anson Phelps Stokes (bishop) W. Julia Whitworth
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual states that make up the United States of America. It consists of a preamble, declaration of rights, description of the principles and framework of government, and articles of amendment.
He served congregations in the Episcopal dioceses of Massachusetts, Western Massachusetts and Chicago prior to his call to Ohio in 2004. He served as the rector of St. Paul's Church in Cleveland Heights until his election as bishop in 2014. [2] He was consecrated as a bishop on September 13, 2014.