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Episcopal Church. Diocese of South Carolina. Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, 1706-1972.

Title: Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina, 1706-1972.

Primary records of diocesan-level administrative bodies and activities include records of the Board of Missions (1877-1952), Board of Trustees (1880-1970), Consecration Committee (1960-1961), Division Committee (1920), Executive Council (1922-1941), and the Standing Committee (1892-1935), and the manuscript journals of the annual diocesan conventions (1785-1892). These materials consist primarily of correspondence, minutes, financial records, and reports. In addition, the records of the diocesan historiographers (1878-1962), primarily John Kershaw (d. 1921) and Albert Sidney Thomas (1873-1967), consist of research notes and drafts of church histories which formed the basis of Thomas's "A Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, 1820-1957" (published in 1957). Among the primary records of organizations, churches, and individuals associated with the Diocese of South Carolina are manuscript journals of the Society for the Advancement of Christianity in South Carolina (1810-1971), records of the extinct church at St. Paul's, Stono (1706-1864), manuscript sermons by Theodore Dehon (1776-1817) and Stiles Mellichamp (d. 1872), and minutes of the Church Women of Trinity Church, Edisto Island (1895-1972). The papers of Alexander Glennie (1804-1880) and Philip Gadsden (1798-1870) contain information relating to their ministry to slaves at All Saints, Waccamaw, and St. Paul's, Stono, respectively. Subject files include clippings, notes, and ephemera relating to nearly two hundred individuals, churches, and institutions associated with the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina.

ArchivalResource: 13.25 linear ft.

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Episcopal Church. Diocese of Upper South Carolina. Records, 1875-[ongoing] (bulk 1922-[ongoing]).

Title: Records, 1875-[ongoing] (bulk 1922-[ongoing]).

Operating records of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina consisting of the records of seven bishops including correspondence, visitation schedules, marriage judgements, confirmations, and activities journals; records of the annual diocesan conventions and special bishop election conventions; minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the governing bodies of Trustees, Standing Committee, and Diocesan Council; records of 65 active parishes and missions as well as several dormant ones; audited financial statements, bequests, estate papers, wills, trusts, loans, profolios, and other permanent financial records; minutes and correspondence of diocesan committees, commissions, task forces, and departments; records of diocesan supported institutions; diocean parochial reports and correspondence with the national church headquarters; issues of the diocesan newsletter, Piedmont Churchman and its successor, Crosswalk; and records of special meetings such as the House of Bishops and the Episcopal bicentennial celebration.

ArchivalResource: 96 linear ft.

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Trinity Cathedral (Columbia, S.C.). Records, 1834-[ongoing].

Title: Records, 1834-[ongoing].

Operating records of Trinity Cathedral consisting of vestry minutes (1864-present); parish meeting minutes (1930-present); parish registers of baptisms, confirmations, transfers, and funerals (1867-present); parish reports; church directories (1918-present); membership lists; financial and property records; minutes of Trinity Foundation; churchyard cemetery records; records of the Daughters of the Holy Cross (Episcopal Church Women); parish newsletters; miscellaneous histories of the church and parish organizations; inventories of works of art, church silver, linen and hangings, furnishings, photographs, and audiovisuals; clergy biographies and records; orders of service; and related records of church and diocesan activities. Collection consists of bound journals, manuscripts, photogrpahs, and artifacts.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear ft.

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