Bestowal of the American Episcopate
Bestowal of the American Episcopate
THE OHIO ANGLICAN
http://ohioanglican.blogspot.com/2012/11/bestowal-of-american-episcopate.html
November 14, 2012
A crucial date for Anglicanism in the United States of America is the consecration of the first Bishop of the Anglican Communion in the United States. During the colonial era, there had been no Anglican bishops in the New World; and persons seeking to be ordained as clergy had had to travel to England for the purpose. After the achievement of American independence, it was important for the Church in the United States to have its own bishops, and an assembly of Connecticut clergy chose Samuel Seabury to go to England and there seek to be consecrated as a bishop.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
THE OHIO ANGLICAN
http://ohioanglican.blogspot.com/2012/11/bestowal-of-american-episcopate.html
November 14, 2012
A crucial date for Anglicanism in the United States of America is the consecration of the first Bishop of the Anglican Communion in the United States. During the colonial era, there had been no Anglican bishops in the New World; and persons seeking to be ordained as clergy had had to travel to England for the purpose. After the achievement of American independence, it was important for the Church in the United States to have its own bishops, and an assembly of Connecticut clergy chose Samuel Seabury to go to England and there seek to be consecrated as a bishop.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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