Alonzo Potter papers, 1840-1869.

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Alonzo Potter papers, 1840-1869.

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Correspondence, chiefly with Bishop William Rollinson Whittingham, and official papers. A few items date before Potter became Bishop in 1845 but most concern his episcopate. Subjects include requests for Whittingham's advice; many clergy matters; views about the mission in Turkey, 1849, and support for the mission in Greece, 1860; Potter's role in Whittingham's controversy with the Reverend Henry Van Dyke Johns, 1850; interest in missions to Germans in Pennsylvania; approval of training women as physicians and educating them for church work, 1852; Civil War prayers; Potter's protest against Bishop John H. Hopkins's defense of slavery, 1863; and posthumous tributes.

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Potter, Alonzo, 1800-1865

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Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Pennyslvania. From the description of Alonzo Potter papers, 1840-1869. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 663477638 ...

Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania

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Hopkins, John Henry, 1792-1868

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Episcopal bishop of Vermont. From the description of Letter, 1851. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155474749 John Henry Hopkins was born in 1792 in Ireland. He became the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of Vermont. Hopkins published over fifty books, pamphlets and sermons. His published lecture, Slavery: Its Religious Sanction, Its Political Dangers, and the Best Mode of Doing it Away (1851) averred that slavery was not a sin but that its abolition was crucial and should be...

Whittingham, William Rollinson, 1805-1879

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William Rollinson Whittingham was born in New York City, N.Y., and graduated from the General Theological Seminary in 1825. He was ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1829 and became rector of Saint Mark's Church in Orange, N.J. Whittingham later served as rector of Saint Luke's Church in New York City, and in 1835 became a professor of ecclesiastical history at the General Theological Seminary. In 1840, he was elected Episcopal bishop of Maryland, the youngest American bishop to date, and served...

Johns, Henry V. D. (Henry Van Dyck), 1803-1859

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Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania. Bishop (1845-1865 : Potter)

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...