Benjamin Allen (September 29, 1789 – ) was an American
Episcopal
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*Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church
*Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
*Episcopal Church (disambiguation), any church with "Episcopal" in its name
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clergyman.
Benjamin Allen was born on September 29, 1789, in
Hudson, New York. He was educated a
Presbyterian, but united with the Episcopal church and became a Licensed lay minister, lay reader, laboring among the African-American population of Charleston, West Virginia, Charleston, Va.; then a deacon, and in 1818 a priest. He published in 1815 the weekly ''Layman's Magazine'', and in 1820 an abridgment of Gilbert Burnet, Burnet's ''History of the Reformation''. In 1821 he was chosen rector of St. Paul's Church, Philadelphia. In 1827 he established a printing-house for the publication of tracts and printing of prayer-books. He published ''Christ and Him Crucified'' and ''Living Manners'', a tale (1822); ''History of the Church of Christ'' (1823–'24); ''The Parent's Counsellor, a Narrative of the Newton Family'', and a "Sketch of the Life of Joseph Pilmore, Dr. Pilmore," his predecessor in St. Paul's Church (1825). See ''Memoirs'' by his brother Thomas G. Allen (Philadelphia, 1832).
Benjamin Allen died on January 13, 1829, at sea.
External links
''Memoir of the Rev. Benjamin Allen''(1823)
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1789 births
1829 deaths
19th-century American Episcopal priests
People from Hudson, New York
Religious leaders from Charleston, West Virginia
Episcopalians from New York (state)