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Whipple served as rector of Zion Church from 1849 to 1857, becoming known both for the size and wealth of his parish and for his work among the poor. In 1857, Whipple helped organize and became the first rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, on Chicago's South Side, the first free church in the city. He drew his parishioners from "the ...
Our Merciful Saviour was founded by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple, who is buried beneath the altar. In 1941 St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Minneapolis was dedicated as the seat of the bishop for the Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, but the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour retains its status as a full cathedral as well.
In 1870 Bishop Henry Whipple asked the Reverend Solomon Stephens Burleson [3] (1833-1897), then the rector of All Saints in Northfield, to visit the city and consider becoming its resident pastor. On January 14, 1871, the Blue Earth City Post reported that “the question of building an Episcopal Church at this place will be decided during the ...
Evangeline was an "intimate friend" of Whipple's first wife Cornelia Wright Whipple, a daughter of Benjamin Wright of Jefferson County, whom he married in 1842 and who died in 1890 from injuries sustained in a railroad accident. [5] Bishop Whipple married Evangeline in 1896, [5] moved to Minnesota, and changed her legal family name to Whipple ...
The Vatican has deemed one Texas church extinct after one nun confessed to an online love affair ... nuns and two in training sued the church and its bishop for $1 million, per Chron ...
The Church of the Good Shepherd built in 1880 is an historic Episcopal church located at 331 Lake Avenue in Maitland, Orange County, Florida.Designed by renowned New York architect Charles C. Haight in the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture, it was built largely through the efforts of the Right Reverend Henry Benjamin Whipple, the first bishop of Minnesota, who began wintering in Maitland ...
Bishop Jimmie L. Williams, pastor of Lighthouse Worship Center Church of God in Christ in Fort Lauderdale, and prelate of the Florida Eastern Ecclesiastic Jurisdiction, which is comprised of 81 ...
He was made deacon on June 22, 1873, by Henry Benjamin Whipple, and ordained to the priesthood by the same bishop on June 21, 1874, at the Cathedral of Our Merciful Saviour. He initially served as a missionary in northeastern Minnesota, after which he was dean of Trinity Cathedral (Omaha, Nebraska) from 1876 to 1886.