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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 ...
Thomas was elected Assistant Bishop of Kansas on the first ballot on February 2, 1887. He was consecrated on May 4, 1887, in St Paul's Church, Saint Paul, Minnesota, by Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple of Minnesota. He succeeded as diocesan bishop on October 6, 1889. [4] He died in office in 1895.
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 ...
Robert Walter McElroy (born February 5, 1954) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as the sixth bishop of the Diocese of San Diego in California since 2015. McElroy was educated by the Sulpicians at St. Joseph High School Seminary and St. Patrick Seminary in California, and was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of ...
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 ...
The institute has an office in the nation’s capital, and Busch is also a key player at Catholic University there. In 2016, his family gave $15 million, the largest donation in university history ...
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.