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Episcopal Diocese Of Rhode Island
The Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing the state of Rhode Island. It is one of seven New England dioceses that make up Province 1. The former Episcopal seat of the diocese, the Cathedral of St. John is at 271 North Main Street in the see city of Providence. It has subsequently been closed. There are 51 parishes in the diocese, with 14,678 members and 10,644 communicants. The bishop is the Right Reverend W. Nicholas Knisely, the thirteenth office holder. History The diocese was founded in 1790 by two clergy and five members of the laity, representatives of the four charter churches of the diocese, King's Church in Providence (1722), Trinity Church in Newport (1698), St. Paul's in North Kingstown (1707), and St. Michael's in Bristol (1720). Without sufficient resources to support a bishop of their own, they elected Samuel Seabury, who was bishop of Connecticut, to hold the office of bishop of R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church, based in the United States with additional dioceses elsewhere, is a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine provinces. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Michael Bruce Curry, the first African-American bishop to serve in that position. As of 2022, the Episcopal Church had 1,678,157 members, of whom the majority were in the United States. it was the nation's 14th largest denomination. Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013). Pew Research estimated that 1.2 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 3 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians. The church has recorded a regular decline in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeast and Upper Midwest. The church was organized after the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Viets Griswold
Alexander Viets Griswold (April 22, 1766 – February 15, 1843) was the 5th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States from 1836 until 1843. He was also the Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, which included all of New England with the exception of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. Griswold was an evangelical Episcopalian. Biography Born in Simsbury, Connecticut, Alexander Viets Griswold was the son of Elisha Griswold and Eunice Viets. Griswold died in Boston, Massachusetts. He married Elizabeth Mitchelson on 6 May 1785 or 1786 at Scotland (now Bloomfield), Connecticut. They had 12 children. His sister was the painter Eunice Pinney. Griswold received the degree of D.D. from Brown in 1810, from Princeton in 1811, and from Harvard in 1812. Griswold was ordained deacon on June 7, 1795, and priest on October 1, 1795. Griswold served three small churches in Litchfield County and also taught school. Griswold was chosen rector of St. Michael's Church, Bris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Nelson Hunt, III
George Nelson Hunt III (December 6, 1931 – October 23, 2022) was the Episcopal Bishop of Rhode Island from 1980 to 1994.''Marquis Who's Who, 2013'' Early life, education and family The son of George Nelson Hunt Jr. and Jessie Mae Alter Hunt, Hunt was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and attended the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee, where he was awarded a B.A. in 1953. He went on to the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, where he earned his M.Div. degree and was ordained to the ministry in 1956. He received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from Yale University in 1980 and the University of Rhode Island awarded him an honorary L.H.D. in 1995. In June 1955, he married Barbara Noel Plamp, with whom he had three children. Career In 1956, he was appointed vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Gillette, Wyoming and in 1957, additionally, he became a priest in charge of St. John's Church in Upton, Wyoming, adding in 1959 the additional responsibilities of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Of Common Prayer
The ''Book of Common Prayer'' (BCP) is the name given to a number of related prayer books used in the Anglican Communion and by other Christian churches historically related to Anglicanism. The original book, published in 1549 in the reign of King Edward VI of England, was a product of the English Reformation following the break with Rome. The work of 1549 was the first prayer book to include the complete forms of service for daily and Sunday worship in English. It contained Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Litany, and Holy Communion and also the occasional services in full: the orders for Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage, " prayers to be said with the sick", and a funeral service. It also set out in full the "propers" (that is the parts of the service which varied week by week or, at times, daily throughout the Church's Year): the introits, collects, and epistle and gospel readings for the Sunday service of Holy Communion. Old Testament and New Testament readings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrica A
Patrica is a hill-top ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Frosinone in the Italian region Lazio. Territory The town is located about southeast of Rome and about southwest of Frosinone. It is at 450 m MSL on a hill that rises, close to the Lepini Mountains, in a dominant position and overlooks the Sacco Valley. The territory of the comune borders Ceccano, Frosinone (the capital of the province), Giuliano di Roma, and Supino. History The origins of the town are not well-known. Shortly before the Roman expansion, the surrounding region was inhabited by Italic peoples speaking Osco-Umbrian languages. The Romans called it ''Patricum''. Their presence is attested by aqueduct ruins in the area. Numerous patrician villas which were located below the town. In the Middle Ages and in the modern era, it was part of the Papal State, sharing the historical events of Rome, thus becoming part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1870. During the 20th century, many residents emigrated from P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo-Ann J
Jo-Ann Stores, LLC, more commonly known as Jo-Ann (stylized as JOANN), is an American specialty retailer of crafts and fabrics based in Hudson, Ohio. It operates the retail chains ''JOANN Fabrics and Crafts'' and ''Jo-Ann Etc''. The headquarters of the company is located in the former General Motors Terex plant. History In 1943, German immigrants Hilda and Berthold Reich, Sigmund and Mathilda Rohrbach, and Justin and Alma Zimmerman opened the Fabric Shop in Cleveland, Ohio. After further expansion, in 1963, the name was changed to ''Jo-Ann Fabrics''. The store's name was created by combining the names of the daughters from both families: Joan and Jacqueline Ann. In 1969, Jo-Ann Fabrics became a publicly held corporation traded on the American Stock Exchange under the name of ''Fabri-Centers of America, Inc.'' In 1994, the company made its first acquisition with the purchase of ''Cloth World'', a 342-store southern company. At the time of the acquisition, Fabri-Centers operated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick H
Frederick may refer to: People * Frederick (given name), the name Nobility Anhalt-Harzgerode *Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode (1613–1670) Austria * Frederick I, Duke of Austria (Babenberg), Duke of Austria from 1195 to 1198 * Frederick II, Duke of Austria (1219–1246), last Duke of Austria from the Babenberg dynasty * Frederick the Fair (Frederick I of Austria (Habsburg), 1286–1330), Duke of Austria and King of the Romans Baden * Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden (1826–1907), Grand Duke of Baden * Frederick II, Grand Duke of Baden (1857–1928), Grand Duke of Baden Bohemia * Frederick, Duke of Bohemia (died 1189), Duke of Olomouc and Bohemia Britain * Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707–1751), eldest son of King George II of Great Britain Brandenburg/Prussia * Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg (1371–1440), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg * Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg (1413–1470), Margrave of Brandenburg * Frederick William, Electo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Seville Higgins
John Seville Higgins (April 14, 1904 - December 28, 1992) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, serving from 1953 to 1954 as coadjutor and from 1955 to 1972 as diocesan. Biography Higgins was born on April 14, 1904, in London, England. He studied at Oberlin College and graduated in 1928. He trained for the ordained ministry at the Western Theological Seminary and graduated in 1931. He was ordained deacon on May 1, 1931, and priest on November 1 of the same year. He served parishes in Nevada, Illinois and Minnesota and in 1948 became rector of St Martin's Church in Providence, Rhode Island. He was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Rhode Island in November 1952 and consecrated on February 4, 1953, by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill Henry Knox Sherrill (November 6, 1890 – May 11, 1980) was an Episcopal bishop. He was the 20th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church from 1947 to 1958, having previously served as Bishop of Massachusetts (1930-1947). Biography H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaylord Granville Bennett (bishop)
Granville Gaylord Bennett (November 28, 1882 – October 3, 1975) was the second Bishop of Duluth and the eighth Bishop of Rhode Island in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Biography Bennett was born in Deadwood, South Dakota on November 28, 1882, the son of Judge Granville Gaylord Bennett, an American lawyer who served as a justice of the Supreme Court for the Dakota Territory and as a delegate to the United States House of Representatives, and Mary Dawson. He studied at the University of Nebraska and later at the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. Bennett was ordained priest in 1907. He worked as a missionary among the Ojibwe Indians in Montana and Nebraska. He also served as rector of St Paul's Church in Minneapolis. He had two sisters, Estelline Rea Bennett (1868 - 1948), author of OLD DEADWOOD DAYS, and Helen Marie Bennett (1872 - 1962), an American journalist, businesswoman, and writer who organized the four women's world's fairs of the 1920s. An olde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James DeWolf Perry
James DeWolf Perry (October 3, 1871 – March 20, 1947) was an American Episcopal clergyman and prelate. He was the 7th Bishop of Rhode Island (1911–1946) and the 18th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (1930–1937). Biography The third of five children, Perry was born in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the Rev. James DeWolf Perry II and Elizabeth Russell Tyson. His father was rector of Calvary Church in Germantown; he was also a descendant of Captain Christopher Raymond Perry, (who was the father of Commodores Oliver Hazard Perry and Matthew C. Perry), and Senators William Bradford and James De Wolf, and was great great grandson of Lieutenant Benjamin Bourne who served in the American Revolution. After graduating from Germantown Academy in 1887, he matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University. In 1895 he earned a Bachelor of Divinity from the Episcopal Theological School. Perry was ordained a deacon by Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Neilson McVickar
William Neilson McVickar (October 19, 1843 - June 28, 1910) was the sixth Bishop of Rhode Island in The Episcopal Church. Biography McVickar was born in New York city, on October 19, 1843, the son of Dr John A. McVickar and Charlotte Neilson. He graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1865 and with a Master of Arts in 1868. He also studied at the General Theological seminary and graduated in 1868. He was ordered deacon in 1867 and priest in 1868 after which he became rector of Holy Trinity Church on 125th street in New York city. In 1875 he became rector of Trinity Church in Philadelphia. He also served as deputy to the general convention from 1883 till 1897. McVickar was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Rhode Island on October 19, 1897, at a special session of the diocesan convention of Rhode Island held in Providence. He was consecrated at Holy Trinity church, Philadelphia on January 27, 1898, by Bishop William Croswell Doane William Croswell Doane (March 2, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban Ministry
Urban means "related to a city". In that sense, the term may refer to: * Urban area, geographical area distinct from rural areas * Urban culture, the culture of towns and cities Urban may also refer to: General * Urban (name), a list of people with the given name or surname * ''Urban'' (newspaper), a Danish free daily newspaper * Urban contemporary music, a radio music format * Urban Outfitters, an American multinational lifestyle retail corporation * Urban Records, a German record label owned by Universal Music Group Place names in the United States * Urban, South Dakota, a ghost town * Urban, Washington, an unincorporated community See also * Pope Urban (other) Pope Urban may refer to one of several popes of the Catholic denomination: *Pope Urban I, pope c. 222–230, a Saint * Pope Urban II, pope 1088–1099, the Blessed Pope Urban *Pope Urban III, pope 1185–1187 *Pope Urban IV, pope 1261–1264 *Pope ..., the name of several popes of the Catholic Church * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
