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John S. Thornton
John Stuart Thornton (born in 1932) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho, serving from 1990 to 1998. He was consecrated on September 1, 1990. Biography Thornton was initially ordained a minister in the Congregational Church, the present day United Church of Christ. He joined the Episcopal Church in 1960. Ordained deacon and priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Wyoming in 1962, he served as curate of St. Peter's Church in Sheridan. In 1964, he was called to be rector of Christ Church in Sausalito, California, and, in 1969, was called to be rector of St. Stephen's Church in Belvedere-Tiburon, California. In 1982, he and his wife, Jan, moved to a small farm near Scio, Oregon, from which he served as vicar of Christ the King on the Santiam in Stayton. In 1990, he was elected bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho and retired in 1998. While serving as bishop, he founded St. Francis of the Tetons in the Teton Valley of Idaho and Wyoming. In 1997, he and his wife founded the L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Idaho
The Episcopal Diocese of Idaho is the diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, with jurisdiction over Idaho south of the Salmon River (Idaho), Salmon River, and one congregation in western Wyoming. Located in Province 8 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Province 8, its cathedral is St. Michael's Episcopal Cathedral (Boise, Idaho), St. Michael's in Boise, Idaho, Boise, as are the diocesan offices. Congregations in Idaho Panhandle, northern Idaho are part of the Episcopal Diocese of Spokane. List of bishops The bishops of Idaho have been:Episcopal Church Annual, 2006, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Morehouse Publishing, p. 213 # Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Daniel S. Tuttle, (1867–1887) # Ethelbert Talbot, (1887–1898), # James Bowen Funsten, (1899–1918) # Herman Page (father), Herman Page, (1919 - 1919) # Frank H. Touret, (1919–1924) # Herbert H. H. Fox, (1925–1926) # Middleton S. Barnwell, (1926–1935) # Frederick B. Bartlett, ( ... [...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] |
David Birney (bishop)
David Bell Birney IV (November 26, 1929 – February 13, 2004) was twelfth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho. Early life and education Birney was born on November 26, 1929, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of David Bell Birney and Stella Walshe. He grew up in Pennsylvania and was educated at the J.P. McCaskey High School and Lancaster Country Day School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and later at Emerson College in Boston. He studied at the Franklin and Marshall College from where he graduated with a B.A. in 1952. He also studied at the Virginia Theological Seminary. Ordained ministry After he was ordained deacon, Birney became curate of St John's Church in York, Pennsylvania. He was ordained priest on December 17, 1955, by Bishop J. Thomas Heistand of Harrisburg. Later he became rector of All Saints' Church in Hanover, Pennsylvania and then rector of the Church of the Mediator in Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 1969 he became a missionary in the Church of Uganda, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Brown Bainbridge III
Harry Brown Bainbridge III (July 25, 1939 – May 27, 2010) was an American bishop. He was the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Idaho from 1998 to 2008. Education Bainbridge was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on July 25, 1939, son of Harry Brown Bainbridge II and Grace Holt. He was raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and attended Sewanee: The University of the South from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1961. He served for two years in the U.S. Navy and later returned to Sewanee to study for his Master of Divinity which he received in 1967. He received a Doctor of Ministry from Sewanee in 1992. Ministry Bainbridge was ordained deacon in 1967 and served as deacon-in-charge of Holy Trinity Church in Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained till he was ordained a priest a year later. In 1968 he became rector of the Church of St Mary Magdalene in Fayetteville, Tennessee and in 1970 transferred to St Thomas' Church in Knoxville, Tennessee. In 1973 he became assistant ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Stough
Furman Charles "Bill" Stough (July 11, 1928 – February 2, 2004) was an American prelate who served as the eighth Episcopal Church Bishop of Alabama from 1971 till 1988. Early life and education Stough was born on July 11, 1928, in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of Furman Charles Stough and Martha Elizabeth Turnipseed. He was educated at Sewanee: The University of the South and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1951. That same year, on May 12, he married Margaret Dargan McCaa. They would become the parents of two children. He also for a Bachelor of Divinity at Sewanee and graduated in 1955. Sewanee also awarded him with a Doctor of Divinity in 1971. Ordained ministry Stough was ordained deacon on May 29, 1955, by George M. Murray, Suffragan Bishop of Alabama. He was then ordained priest in December of the same year by Charles Carpenter, Bishop of Alabama. He then served as rector of St. Andrew's Church in Sylacauga, Alabama, and St. Mary's Church in Chil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Americans
Americans are the Citizenship of the United States, citizens and United States nationality law, nationals of the United States, United States of America.; ; Although direct citizens and nationals make up the majority of Americans, many Multiple citizenship, dual citizens, expatriates, and green card, permanent residents could also legally claim American nationality. The United States is home to race and ethnicity in the United States, people of many racial and ethnic origins; consequently, culture of the United States, American culture and Law of the United States, law do not equate nationality with Race (human categorization), race or Ethnic group, ethnicity, but with citizenship and an Oath of Allegiance (United States), oath of permanent allegiance. Overview The majority of Americans or their ancestors Immigration to the United States, immigrated to the United States or are descended from people who were Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, brought as Slavery in the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its '' primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Church Of Christ
The United Church of Christ (UCC) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Calvinist, Lutheran, and Anabaptist traditions, and with approximately 4,800 churches and 773,500 members. The United Church of Christ is a historical continuation of the General Council of Congregational Christian churches founded under the influence of New England Pilgrims and Puritans. Moreover, it also subsumed the third largest Calvinist group in the country, the German Reformed. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC. These two denominations, which were themselves the result of earlier unions, had their roots in Congregational, Lutheran, Evangelical, and Reformed denominations. At the end of 2014, the UCC's 5,116 congregations claimed 979,239 members, primarily in the U.S. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Episcopal Bishops Of Idaho
Episcopal may refer to: *Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church *Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese * Episcopal Church (other), any church with "Episcopal" in its name ** Episcopal Church (United States), an affiliate of Anglicanism based in the United States * Episcopal conference, an official assembly of bishops in a territory of the Roman Catholic Church *Episcopal polity, the church united under the oversight of bishops *Episcopal see, the official seat of a bishop, often applied to the area over which he exercises authority * Historical episcopate, dioceses established according to apostolic succession See also * Episcopal High School (other) * Pontifical (other) The Pontifical is a liturgical book used by a bishop. It may also refer specifically to the Roman Rite Roman Pontifical. When used as an adjective, Pontifical may be used to describe things related to the office of a Bishop (see also Pontiff#Chris . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
