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The Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America that covers roughly Middle Tennessee.A single diocese spanned the entire state until 1982, when the Episcopal Diocese of West Tennessee was created; the Diocese of Tennessee was again split in 1985 when the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee was formed. [1]
The Southern Episcopal Church (SEC) is an Anglican Christian denomination established in Nashville, Tennessee in 1953, [1] and formally organised in 1962, in reaction to liberal political and theological trends within the Episcopal Church USA.
George Lazenby Reynolds, Jr. (August 18, 1927 – November 3, 1991) was the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee, serving from 1985 to 1991.He was the first bishop to serve the remnant diocese, encompassing the middle third of the state, after the separations of the Diocese of West Tennessee and the Diocese of East Tennessee from the original statewide judicatory, in 1983 and ...
Bishop Otey died in 1863, but the Diocese of Tennessee was unable to elect a new leader until after the war, on September 7, 1865, when it selected Quintard as its second bishop. The bishops and lay leaders of the national Episcopal Church confirmed his election the next month at the General Convention in Philadelphia.
Otey then returned to Franklin and organized Tennessee's first Episcopal church there in the Masonic Lodge. His later-famous pupils included Matthew F. Maury, future Confederate General Braxton Bragg, and Thomas Bragg. [14] Otey also established several other churches and on July 1, 1829, established the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee at ...
With support from Bishop Quintard and St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chattanooga, Christ Church parish was formally established in May 1887. [3] The following year a rectory was built, the bell tower was added to the church, and the church was consecrated by Bishop Quintard. [3] [4] [5] The church's parish house was completed in about 1889.
In fact, one of the defecting churches, St. Andrew's in Nashville, an Anglo-Catholic parish since its 1960s relocation from a then-declining part of West Nashville to the affluent Green Hills neighborhood, was forced by the Tennessee Supreme Court to cede its property to the diocese in late 2012, and the following year, Bauerschmidt had the ...
In the mid-1840s, Humes began studying under the authority of Tennessee's Episcopal Bishop James Otey (1800–1863). He initially served as Sunday lay reader for Knoxville's St. John's Episcopal Church congregation, and after being ordained a deacon in March 1845, he served as assistant to the church's rector. In July 1845, Humes was ordained a ...