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Bethlehem Nopece

Nopece upholds the orthodox Anglican stance on homosexuality and as such he condemned the consecration of Gene Robinson, the first non-celibate gay bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2003, as a defiant act to the Anglican Communion.

Charles S. Fairfax

The 7th Baron, Robert Fairfax, died without issue in 1793 and the title descended to an American second cousin, the Rev. Bryan Fairfax (1736–1802), was a priest of the Episcopal Church and rector of parish in Alexandria, who was the son of William Fairfax(1691–1757) of Belvoir and Deborah Clarke (1707–1747).

Christchurch School

Christchurch School is a college-preparatory boarding school in Christchurch, Virginia, founded in 1921 by the Episcopal Church Diocese of Virginia and highly regarded for its dynamic, place-based Great Journeys Begin at the River program.

Eliza Griswold

Eliza Griswold is the daughter of Frank Griswold, the 25th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.

Frances Cox Henderson

Frances Henderson was a member of the Episcopal Church and helped establish churches in the East Texas towns of Trinity, San Augustine, Rusk, Palestine and Nacogdoches.

Henry N. Parsley, Jr.

In January 2006, Bishop Parsley was nominated for Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, and came in second in balloting to Katharine Jefferts Schori during voting at the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in Columbus, Ohio.

Jehu Glancy Jones

He attended Kenyon College, studied theology and was ordained to the ministry of the Episcopal Church in 1835 and withdrew in 1841.

John Gaw Meem

Meem was born in 1894 in Pelotas, Brazil, the eldest child of parents who were missionaries of the Episcopal Church.

Joseph Fort Newton

At the invitation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania Bishop Thomas J. Garland, Newton entered the ministry of the Episcopal Church in September 1925, and came to the Memorial Church of St. Paul, Overbrook, Philadelphia, PA, as special minister.

Marion J. Hatchett

In 1973, he was appointed to the Episcopal Church's Standing Commission on Church Music, serving as the chairperson of that text committee for The Hymnal 1982.

Missionary Bishop

In the Episcopal Church, the House of Bishops may, according to canon law, establish a mission in a geographic area that is not already governed by a diocesan bishop or by a church in communion with the Episcopal Church and appoint a missionary bishop to give oversight to that area.

Richard G. Salomon

Richard Georg Salomon (born 22 April 1884 in Berlin, Germany - died 3 February 1966 in Mount Vernon, Ohio) was an historian of eastern European medieval history and historian of the Episcopal Church in the United States, who taught at the University of Hamburg in Germany and at Kenyon College and its Episcopal Church seminary Bexley Hall in Ohio USA.

Saint Augustine's Prayer Book

Saint Augustine's Prayer Book is an Anglo-Catholic devotional book published for members of the Episcopal Church by the Order of the Holy Cross, an Anglican monastic community.

Stephen Lloyd Cook

Stephen Cook serves as the Catherine N. McBurney Professor of Old Testament Language and Literature at Virginia Theological Seminary, the largest of the accredited seminaries of the Episcopal Church.

William P. Remington

Remington later studied for the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, graduating from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1905.

William Whittingham Lyman

He helped found Grace Episcopal Church of St. Helena, California.


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Ario Pardee, Jr.

He was buried in the churchyard of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.

Bishop Robinson

Bishop Gene Robinson, bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America

Caleb Sprague Henry

He then entered the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church and was professor of moral and intellectual philosophy in Bristol College, Pa., (1835–38).

Channing Moore Williams

In 1859, together with the Rev. John Liggins, Moore was appointed by the Mission Board of the American Episcopal Church to begin missionary work in Japan.

Charles Cowman

In the late 1890s, Cowman met and befriended Juji Nakada at his church, Grace Methodist Episcopal Church.

Charles Zeuner

He departed for Philadelphia where he was organist for St. Andrew's Episcopal Church and then Arch Street Presbyterian Church.

Dennis Canon

The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, a parish located in San Angelo, held a business meeting on November 12, 2006 and voted to

Dixon S. Miles

Miles died the next day and is buried in St. James Episcopal Church Cemetery in Monkton, Maryland.

Easson

Frederick Easson (1905–1988), Scottish Episcopal Church bishop of the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Scotland, United Kingdom

Edwin Hughes

Edwin Holt Hughes (1866–1950), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee

Nashotah House, in Nashotah, which is a seminary for the Episcopal Church, and St. John's Northwestern Military Academy in Delafield, Wisconsin, a private Episcopal military academy, are also located in the Diocese of Milwaukee.

Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island

In the first part of the 20th century, the Episcopal Church in Rhode Island focused on urban ministry with a focus on social concerns, led by Bishop William N. McVickar.

Francis Burns

The 1856 General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church made provision for the first time for the election and consecration of a Missionary Bishop (for the African work).

Frederick B. Williams

From 1971-2005, Williams led as Vicar and Rector at the Church of the Intercession, an Episcopal church in Harlem, New York at the border of Washington Heights.

George Bickley

George Harvey Bickley, American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

Harry Coleman McGehee, Jr.

While a woman was a finalist for the position, which would have resulted in the first female Bishop, ultimately the election was won by R. Stewart Wood Jr., rector of St. John's Episcopal Church in Memphis, Tennessee.

Henry Pierce

Henry Niles Pierce (1820–1899), diocesan bishop of Arkansas in the Episcopal Church

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South

Houston Methodist Episcopal Church, South is a historic church on AR 60 on the southwest side, near the junction with AR 216 in Houston, Arkansas.

John Emery

John Emory (1789–1835), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church

LHA Charitable Trust

In order to fund the monthly cost of the soup kitchen, Lha has partnered with the St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States (U.S.).

Lime Rock, Connecticut

U.S. Senator William Henry Barnum, the chief executive of Barnum and Richardson and longest serving Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, resided in Lime Rock, and was the founder of Trinity Episcopal Church Trinity Lime Rock.

Louis R. Douglass

Douglass was a member of St. Christopher's Episcopal Church in Boulder City and served as a Junior Warden from 1955 to 1960.

Manchester United Methodist Church

Manchester United Methodist Church (formerly Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church, abbreviated Manchester UMC or simply MUMC) is a United Methodist megachurch in Manchester, Missouri.

Marvin Vincent

Vincent graduated from Columbia University in 1851, taught in the Columbia Grammar School, was professor of classics in the Troy Methodist University from 1858 to 1862; then acting pastor of the Pacific Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn from 1862 to 1863; and pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Troy, New York, from 1863 to 1873.

Mary Adelia McLeod

The Principal Consecrator was Edmond L. Browning, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church at that time.

Mary McLeod

Mary Adelia McLeod (born 1938), first woman Diocesan Bishop in the Episcopal Church

Methodist Church of Canada

It now included all Canadian Methodists with the exception of several very small groups: the British Methodist Episcopal Church (a development of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serving chiefly people of colour), two German-speaking bodies (the Evangelical Association and the United Brethren in Christ), and the Free Methodist Church (a body that had begun in New York State in 1860 and extended itself into Canada.)

Moncure Robinson

In his will of September 11, 1873, he left an endowment for preservation of the Aquia Episcopal Church, Aquia, Virginia (his grandfather was reverend there, and his parents are buried there -- the Robinson trust still funds its maintenance).

Mount Tabor, New Jersey

On March 17, 1869, the incorporation of the "Camp Meeting Association of the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church" came about by virtue of the passage of New Jersey Chapter Law 185 of the Legislative Session of 1869, enacted into law by the both the New Jersey Senate and the New Jersey General Assembly.

Paul Langdon Ward

He served on Nelson Rockefeller's Commission on the Higher Education of Women, and was active in the peace movement in the U.S. in the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and on the Joint Commission of Peace of the Episcopal Church.

Paul Stewart

Paul A.G. Stewart (born 1941), bishop of the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Peter E. Gillquist

A desire for Apostolic Succession led most members of the EOC to join the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in 1987 after first investigating the Episcopal Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Archdiocese, and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Phil Brooks

Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), Bishop of Massachusetts in the Episcopal Church during the early 1890s

Rex Linn

There he attended Heritage Hall and later Casady School, an independent school affiliated with the Episcopal Church, and was employed part-time at the Oklahoma City Zoo.

Robert Williams Daniel

On December 6, 1923, Daniel married Mrs. Margery Durant Campbell, daughter of William C. Durant, an automobile manufacturer in the Halsey Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.

Rufus P. Spalding

Following the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act in 1854, anti-slavery politicians from various parties met in the Town Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Columbus, Ohio to form what became the Fusion Party.

Samir Kafity

Since 1998 he has been Bishop-in-Residence at St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church, Poway.

Samuel Parkman Tuckerman

He was born in Boston and became the organist of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in 1840.

Seamans

Sam Seamans, an Assisting Bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church

Skaneateles Historic District

Architects whose work is represented in the district include Stanford White ("The Boulders", 100 East Genesee Street, 1881) and Horatio Nelson White (St. James' Episcopal Church, 94 East Genesee Street, 1873).

St. Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh

Thomas' Church, Whitemarsh is an Episcopal church located at the juncture of Bethlehem Pike, Skippack Pike, and Church Road in Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Tabot

The return in February 2002 of one of these, discovered in the storage of St. John's Episcopal Church in Edinburgh, was a cause of public rejoicing in Addis Ababa.

Thoburn

Isabella Thoburn (1840–1901), American Christian missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church in North India

James Mills Thoburn (1836–1922), American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church known for his missionary work in India

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North

The film follows them as they retrace the triangle trade starting at Linden Place in Bristol, Rhode Island, the hometown of the DeWolfs, where the family was prominent in the Bristol Fourth of July Parade, local Episcopal Church and other local institutions.

Tyng

Stephen H. Tyng, Episcopal Church evangelical preacher in New York City

United Episcopal Church of North America

William White, as first Bishop of Pennsylvania, and 1st and 4th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, who in 1832 consecrated

William Clyde Martin

Upon the reunion of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Methodist Episcopal Church South and the Methodist Protestant Church in 1939, Bishop Martin was assigned the Kansas-Nebraska Episcopal Area.

William H. Love

On January 19, 2008, Love celebrated the eucharist at St. Andrew's church in Albany while hosting a visit by Dr Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies.

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery

Zion Episcopal Church Complex and Harmony Cemetery is a national historic district comprising a historic Episcopal church complex and cemetery located at Morris in Otsego County, New York.