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William Henry Odenheimer (August 11, 1817 – August 14, 1879) was the third Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey and the first of Northern New Jersey. Early life Odenheimer was born in Philadelphia in 1817, the son of John W. Odenheimer and Henrietta Burns Odenheimer. Odenheimer was prepared at Flushing, Long Island, at the famous Institute founded in 1828 by the Reverend William Augustus Muhlenberg (1796-1877). Scholars emanating from the Flushing Institute very often matriculated in the third year at Penn, Virginia, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other colleges. Odenheimer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835.Perry, 141 He would have left Penn just upon the arrival of another Muhlenberg "school son," J. Lloyd Breck (1818-1876), the legendary missionary educator of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and California. Odenheimer next attended the General Theological Seminary, graduating in 1838. In 1839, he married Anne Randall Shaw. They would have eleven children but only tw ...
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Episcopal Diocese Of Newark
The Episcopal Diocese of Newark is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America comprising the North Jersey, northern third of New Jersey in the United States. The Diocese represents the Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is a province, and presides over Episcopal parishes, missions, outreach ministries and schools in the New Jersey counties of Bergen County, New Jersey, Bergen, Essex County, New Jersey, Essex, Hudson County, New Jersey, Hudson, Morris County, New Jersey, Morris, Passaic County, New Jersey, Passaic, Sussex County, New Jersey, Sussex, Warren County, New Jersey, Warren, and one church in Union County, New Jersey, Union County. History Though Newark was originally a History of Newark, New Jersey, Puritan settlement, Anglicans have been worshipping in the area since 1695. An Anglican congregation was established in Newark by 1729 and a church, Trinity Church, was under construction in 1742. Two other current parishesChrist Chur ...
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Philadelphia Nativist Riots
The Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place on May 68 and July 67, 1844, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States and the adjacent District#United States, districts of Kensington District, Pennsylvania, Kensington and Southwark, Philadelphia, Southwark. The riots were a result of rising Anti-Catholicism, anti-Catholic sentiment at the growing population of Irish Catholic immigrants. The government brought in over a thousand militia—they confronted the Nativism (politics), nativist mobs and killed and wounded hundreds. In the five months leading to the riots, Nativism (politics), nativist groups had been spreading a false rumor that Roman Catholic Church, Catholics were trying to remove the Bible from public schools. A nativist rally in Kensington erupted in violence on May 6 and started a deadly riot that would result in the destruction of two Catholic chur ...
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19th-century American Episcopalians
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General Theological Seminary Alumni
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University Of Pennsylvania Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university ...
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Clergy From Philadelphia
Clergy are formal leaders within established religions. Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, and cleric, while clerk in holy orders has a long history but is rarely used. In Christianity, the specific names and roles of the clergy vary by Christian denomination, denomination and there is a wide range of formal and informal clergy positions, including deacons, Elder (Christianity), elders, priests, bishops, preachers, pastors, presbyters, Minister (Christianity), ministers, and the pope. In Islam, a religious leader is often known formally or informally as an imam, caliph, qadi, mufti, mullah, muezzin, or ayatollah. In the Judaism, Jewish tradition, a religious leader is often a rabbi (teacher) or hazzan (cantor). Etymology The word ''cleric ...
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1879 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – The ...
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1817 Births
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John Scarborough
John Scarborough (April 21, 1831 – March 14, 1914) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey from 1875 to 1914. Biography Scarborough was born on April 21, 1831, in Castlewellan County Down in Ireland. He and his family emigrated to the United States when he was a child and received his early education at Queensbury, New York. he graduated from Trinity College in Hartford in 1854 after which he attended the General Theological Seminary in New York. He was ordained deacon in Trinity Church on June 28, 1857, by Bishop Horatio Potter. He became assistant in St Paul Church in Troy, New York where he was ordained priest on August 14, 1858. In 1861 he became rector of the Church of the Holy Comforter in Poughkeepsie, New York and in 1867 was made rector of Trinity Church in Pittsburgh Pittsburgh ( ) is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, and the county seat of Allegheny County. It is the most populous city in both Allegheny County and Weste ...
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University Of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light , established = , endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019) , budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20) , chancellor = The Lord Patten of Barnes , vice_chancellor = Louise Richardson , students = 24,515 (2019) , undergrad = 11,955 , postgrad = 12,010 , other = 541 (2017) , city = Oxford , country = England , coordinates = , campus_type = University town , athletics_affiliations = Blue (university sport) , logo_size = 250px , website = , logo = University of Oxford.svg , colours = Oxford Blue , faculty = 6,995 (2020) , academic_affiliations = , The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxf ...
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Doctor Of Canon Law
Doctor of Canon Law ( la, Juris Canonici Doctor, JCD) is the doctoral-level terminal degree in the studies of canon law of the Roman Catholic Church. It can also be an honorary degree awarded by Anglican colleges. It may also be abbreviated ICD or dr.iur.can. (''Iuris Canonici Doctor''), ICDr, DCL, DCnl, DDC, or DCanL (''Doctor of Canon Law''). A doctor of both laws (i.e. canon and civil) is a JUD (''Juris Utriusque Doctor'') or UJD (''Utriusque Juris Doctor''). Course of study A doctorate in canon law normally requires earning the degree Licentiate of Canon Law, then at least two years of additional study and the development and defence of an original dissertation that contributes to the development of canon law. Only a pontifical university or ecclesiastical faculties of canon law may grant the doctorate or licentiate in canon law. The Licentiate of Canon Law is a three-year degree. The prerequisite for it is normally the graduate-level Bachelor of Sacred Theology (STB) de ...
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William Rollinson Whittingham
William Rollinson Whittingham (December 2, 1805 – October 17, 1879) was the fourth Episcopal Bishop of Maryland. Early life and career Whittingham was born in New York City, the son of Richard Whittingham and Mary Ann Rollinson Whittingham. He was educated at home, and later attended the General Theological Seminary, graduating in 1825. He received the degree of Doctor of Sacred Theology from Columbia University in 1827. Whittingham was ordained deacon on March 11, 1827 by the Bishop of New York John Henry Hobart in Trinity Church. He was then assigned to missionary work in northern New Jersey. While there, he married Hannah Harrison; the couple ultimately had two sons and two daughters. Whittingham was ordained priest on December 17, 1829 by the Bishop of New Jersey John Croes in St Mark's Church, Orange, New Jersey, which church he then became rector of. In 1831, he became the rector of St. Luke's, New York City, and remained there until 1836, when he accepted a pr ...
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