Henry Bond Restarick (December 26, 1854 – December 8, 1933) was the first American bishop of the

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Biography

He was born in Somerset, England, the son of Edwin Restarick and Amelia Riall Webb. He was educated at King James Collegiate School in

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, England, after which, in 1872, he emigrated to the

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. he worked as a farm hand and then a country school teacher, before studying at Griswold College in

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, from where he graduated with a

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in 1882. He was ordained deacon in 1881 and priest in 1882. In 1881, he was appointed curate of Trinity Church in Muscatine, Iowa, while in 1882, he became rector of St Paul's Church in

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, where he remained till 1902. He was elected Bishop of Hawaii on April 17, 1902, and was consecrated on July 2, 1902 by the Bishop of California

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. He resigned on October 27, 1920. He was also editor of the ''Hawaiian Church Chronicle'', trustee and president of the Hawaiian Historical Society, and president of the Library of Hawaii, a post which he held from 1927 to 1931.

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1854 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in the United States Episcopal bishops of Hawaii People from Somerset English emigrants to the United States {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub