He was the first Missionary Bishop, and the first African-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1858).
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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).
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.
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Thomas Fielding Scott (March 12, 1807–July 14, 1867) was the first missionary Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon territories.
The first missionary bishop with a non-US jurisdiction was William Boone, elected in 1844 to be bishop of “Amoy and Other Parts of China”, where Episcopal missionaries had first arrived in 1835.
Liberia, where the DFMS sent missionaries in 1835 and 1836, received a missionary bishop in 1851 and its first African American missionary bishop, Samuel Ferguson, in 1884.
Louis William Valentine Dubourg (Louis Guillaume Valentin Dubourg) (1766–1833), French missionary Bishop
Edwin Ferdinand Lee (1884–1948), American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church
He was also the first foreign missionary Bishop of the Episcopal Church as his oversight extended also to the Republic of Texas.
Aloyse Kobès (born at Fessenheim on April 14, 1820: died at Dakar on October 11, 1872) was the first missionary bishop from Alsace.
St. Salvius, honoured as a martyr at Valenciennes, whom the Gallia Christiana makes a Bishop of Angoulême, was undoubtedly only a missionary bishop of the eighth century.
It was the birthplace of the missionary bishop, Paul Durieu, O.M.I. (1830–1899), first Bishop of New Westminster in British Columbia, Canada.
He was appointed as missionary bishop of Eastern Oregon in 1922, and later elected as suffragan bishop of Pennsylvania in 1945.