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Edward Lee Greene

In 1876–1877, while Greene was an episcopal priest in Yreka, California, he discovered the first specimens of Phlox hirsuta, a small flowering plant found only in that area.


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Albert Jay Nock

He was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania (U.S.), to a father who was both a steelworker and an Episcopal priest, and he was raised in Brooklyn, New York.

Anne Holmes

Ann Holmes Redding (born 1952), former Episcopal priest, defrocked for converting to Islam

Bela Pratt

During this time, Pratt sculpted a series of busts of Boston's intellectual community, including Episcopal priest Phillips Brooks (1899, Brooks House, Harvard University), Colonel Henry Lee (1902, Memorial Hall, Harvard University), and Boston Symphony Orchestra founder Henry Lee Higginson (1909, Symphony Hall, Boston).

Father Albert

Alberto Cutié also known as Albert Cutié, a former Roman Catholic priest and current Episcopal priest and host of the talk show Father Albert on Fox.

James Bush

James Smith Bush (1825–1889), attorney, Episcopal priest, and religious writer

James Simpson

James B. Simpson (died 2002), American journalist and Episcopal priest, known for Simpson's Contemporary Quotations

John Harmon Charles Bonté

John Harmon Charles Bonté (1831–1896) was a lawyer, Episcopal priest, and Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University of California from 1881-1896.

John Sanford

John A. Sanford, also known as Jack Sanford, Jungian psychoanalyst and Episcopal priest

O Little Town of Bethlehem

The text was written by Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), an Episcopal priest, Rector of the Church of the Holy Trinity, Philadelphia.

Paul Murray

Pauli Murray (Anna Pauline Murray, 1910–1985), African American civil-rights advocate, feminist, lawyer, writer, poet, teacher, and ordained Episcopal priest

Ron Penfound

He had originally planned to become an Episcopal priest, but then transferred to study broadcasting at the University of Denver.

Situational ethics

Situational ethics, or situation ethics, is a Christian ethical theory that was principally developed in the 1960s by the then Episcopal priest Joseph Fletcher.

University Human Rights Centers

She was co-founder for the National Organization for Women and the country’s first black, female Episcopal priest.

William Pendleton

William N. Pendleton (1809–1883), American teacher, Episcopal priest, and soldier