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William Forbes Adams
William Forbes Adams (January 2, 1833 – March 5, 1920) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton. He also served as a missionary bishop of Arizona and New Mexico. Early years and education Adams was born on January 2, 1833, in Enniskillen, Ireland, and when he was eight, he and his family arrived in the United States, who settled in Kentucky. Young Adams was fitted for Yale, but pecuniary reverses attendant upon the failure of his father in business, obliged him to forego his plans, then he bravely accepted the change in his circumstances, obtained a mercantile situation, and in his leisure time studied law, so, in 1854 he was admitted to the Mississippi bar. He received the degree of D.C.L. from the University of the South at Sewanee, Tennessee. Career He removed to Tennessee, and pursued his theological studies with a view to entering the church, then returned to Mississippi before the completion of his course, and was ordained a deacon in St. Andrew's church, Jacks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Diocese Of Easton
The Episcopal Diocese of Easton is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America that comprises the nine counties that make up the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It is in Province 3 of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Province III (the Mid-Atlantic States, Middle Atlantic region) and was created as a split from the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, Diocese of Maryland in 1868. The diocese consists of the Eastern Shore of Maryland (the nine counties of Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Anne's, Somerset, Talbot, Wicomico, and Worcester), and has a total membership of about 9,750 people, out of a total population of 420,792, according to a 2004 census estimate. There are 39 parishes and missions in the diocese. Its largest cities are Salisbury, Maryland, Salisbury, Ocean City, Maryland, Ocean City, and Easton, Maryland, Easton, the centrally located city from which the diocese takes its name and where Trinity Cathedral, the bishop's seat, is l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodville, Mississippi
Woodville is a town in and the county seat of Wilkinson County, Mississippi, United States. Its population as of 2020 was 928. History This historic town, one of the oldest in Mississippi, is set among the rolling hills and pastures of Wilkinson County, just north of the Louisiana-Mississippi border in the southwest corner of the state. It was incorporated in 1811, after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803 and not long before Mississippi's admission to the United States in 1817. It was developed along the historic corridor between St. Francisville, Louisiana, 24 miles to the south and Natchez, Mississippi, 34 miles to the north. Since pre-colonial times, communities within this corridor have been linked, first by the Lower Natchez Trace, a footpath and portage developed by Native Americans and serving the east bank of the Mississippi River. In the 20th century, U.S. Highway 61, the "Blues Highway," was later built along this route; it is considered the spine of jazz and blues music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anglican Missionaries
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 pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
