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St. James' Episcopal Church (New York City)
St. James' Church is an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal parish church located at the intersection of Madison Avenue and 71st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Founded in May 1810 as a chapel of ease, summer chapel for New Yorkers with country homes north of the then city, it has grown into one of the largest Episcopal churches in New York City. In addition to worship, it has programs for children and young families, youth and young adults, as well as a music program and a devotion to mission and service in the community. In 2021, it reported 1,559 members, average attendance of 165, and $2,749,445 in plate and pledge income. Worship & music St. James' Church worships in a variety of styles within the Anglicanism, Anglican tradition. Four services of Holy Eucharist are celebrated every Sunday. Music In 2008–2009, the parish installed the St. James' Bicentennial Organ, built by Schoenstein & Co. Organbuilders (op. 156 & 157) in San Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Church (United States)
The Episcopal Church (TEC), also known as the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, based in the United States. It is a mainline Protestant denomination and is divided into nine Ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses of the Episcopal Church, provinces. The current presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church is Sean Rowe, Sean W. Rowe. In 2023, the Episcopal Church had 1,547,779 members. it was the 14th largest denomination in the United States. Note: The number of members given here is the total number of baptized members in 2012 (cf. #refBaptizedMembers2012, Baptized Members by Province and Diocese 2002–2013). In 2025, Pew Research Center, Pew Research estimated that 1 percent of the adult population in the United States, or 2.6 million people, self-identify as mainline Episcopalians. The church has declined in membership and Sunday attendance since the 1960s, particularly in the Northeastern Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Haiti is the third largest country in the Caribbean, and with an estimated population of 11.4 million, is the most populous Caribbean country. The capital and largest city is Port-au-Prince. Haiti was originally inhabited by the Taíno people. In 1492, Christopher Columbus established the first European settlement in the Americas, La Navidad, on its northeastern coast. The island was part of the Spanish Empire until 1697, when the western portion was Peace of Ryswick, ceded to France and became Saint-Domingue, dominated by sugarcane sugar plantations in the Caribbean, plantations worked by enslaved Africans. The 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution made Haiti the first sovereign state in the Caribbean, the second republic in the Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward R
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Steinbeck
John Ernst Steinbeck ( ; February 27, 1902 – December 20, 1968) was an American writer. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception". He has been called "a giant of American letters." During his writing career, he authored 33 books, with one book coauthored alongside Edward Ricketts, including 16 novels, six non-fiction books, and two collections of short stories. He is widely known for the comic novels ''Tortilla Flat'' (1935) and ''Cannery Row (novel), Cannery Row'' (1945), the multigeneration epic ''East of Eden (novel), East of Eden'' (1952), and the novellas ''The Red Pony'' (1933) and ''Of Mice and Men'' (1937). The Pulitzer Prize–winning ''The Grapes of Wrath'' (1939) is considered Steinbeck's masterpiece and part of the Western canon, American literary canon. By the 75th anniversary of its publishing date, it had sold 14 million copies. Much of Steinbec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WFME (AM)
WFME (1560 kHz) is a non-commercial AM radio station licensed to New York, New York. The station is owned by Family Radio, a Christian radio network based in Franklin, Tennessee. History WFME traces its origin to an experimental mechanical television station with the call sign W2XR, which was established by inventor John V. L. Hogan, and initially licensed as a "visual broadcasting and experimental" station at 140 Nassau Street in New York City. The station went on the air on March 26, 1929, and broadcast from the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens. W2XR initially transmitted a video-only signal on 2100 kHz. It later added a companion audio signal, transmitted on 1550 kHz. At the time, the AM broadcast band ended at 1500 kHz, however, some receivers were capable of tuning to the higher frequency being used by W2XR. Hogan was a musical connoisseur, and drew on his record collection to provide the sound for his experiments, which typically lasted for an hour i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WOR (AM)
WOR () is a 50,000-watt class A clear-channel AM radio station owned by iHeartMedia and licensed to New York, New York. The station airs a mix of local and syndicated talk radio shows, primarily from co-owned Premiere Networks, including '' The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show'', '' The Sean Hannity Show'', and '' Coast to Coast AM with George Noory''. '' CBS Eye on the World'' with John Batchelor, from CBS News Radio is heard at night. Since 2016, the station has served as the New York outlet for co-owned NBC News Radio. The station's studios are located at 125 West 55th Street in Midtown Manhattan, with its transmitter in Rutherford, New Jersey. WOR began broadcasting on Wednesday, February 22, 1922, and is one of the oldest continuously operating radio stations in the United States with a three–letter call sign, characteristic of a station dating from the 1920s. WOR is the only New York City station to have retained its original three-letter call sign, making those ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nine Lessons And Carols
Nine Lessons and Carols, also known as the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, is a service of Christian worship traditionally celebrated on or near Christmas Eve in Anglican churches. The story of the fall of humanity, the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus is told in nine short Bible readings or lessons from Genesis, the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir anthems. History Although the tradition of Nine Lessons and Carols is popularly associated with King's College, Cambridge, its origins are attributed to Truro Cathedral in Cornwall. Up to the late 19th century, the singing of Christmas carols was normally performed by singers visiting people's houses, and carols — generally considered to be secular in content — had been excluded from Christian worship. In the Victorian era, the rising popularity of hymnody encouraged church musicians to introduce car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hays Hamilton Rockwell
Hays Hamilton Rockwell (born August 17, 1936) is an American prelate who was ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Missouri. Early life and education Rockwell was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 17, 1936, the son of Walter Francis Rockwell and Kathryn McElroy. He was educated at Brown University (B.A., 1958) and the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Massachusetts (B.Div. 1961). He also earned an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Kenyon College in 1974, and from the Seminary of the Southwest in 1984. Ordained ministry Rockwell was ordained deacon in 1961 and priest in 1962. He began his priestly career at St. George's School, Middletown, Rhode Island (1961–69) and then moved to Rochester, New York where he served first as chaplain at the University of Rochester (1969–71) and then as dean at Bexley Hall Theological Seminary (1971–76). From there he moved to New York City in 1976 where he served for fifteen years as the fourteenth rector of St. James' Episcopal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bowen Coburn
John Bowen Coburn (September 27, 1914 – August 8, 2009) was bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1976 to 1986. Early life and education Coburn was born on September 27, 1914, in Danbury, Connecticut, the son of the Reverend Aaron Cutler Coburn and Eugenia Bowen Woolfolk. He studied at Wooster School, a school founded by his father and graduated in 1931. Later he studied at Princeton University from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in politics in 1936. Between 1936 and 1939, he taught English and Biology at Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey. After that he studied at the Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Union Theological Seminary from which he earned his Bachelor of Divinity in 1942. He was awarded a total of ten Doctor of Divinity from different universities, a Doctor of Sacred Theology from Berkeley College in 1958 and a Doctor of Canon Law from Kenyon College and General Theological Seminary in 1968. Ordained ministry Coburn was ordai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace William Baden Donegan
Horace William Baden Donegan (May 17, 1900 – November 11, 1991) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and served as the Bishop of New York from 1950 to 1972. Early life Donegan was born at Cordella, the family home of his parents Horace George Donegani and Emma (Pembroke) Hand in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. His father Horace George Donegani was a butcher who ran Donegani and Sons Butchers on the South Parade in Matlock Bath. When Donegan was ten, he and his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Baltimore, Maryland. His last name was changed from "Donegani" to "Donegan". He initially pursued a career as a stage actor. After falling in love with the daughter of his landlady (who was infuriated at the thought of an actor as her son-in-law), he decided on an ecclesiastical path. He never married, although clergy in the Episcopal Church may marry. Education Donegan completed his undergraduate work at St. Stephen's College in A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Warfield Crowder
Reverend Frank Warfield Crowder (June 6, 1869 – September 27, 1932) was the rector of St. James' Episcopal Church (New York City), St. James' Episcopal Church in New York City. He was a supporter of the death penalty. Biography He was born on June 6, 1869, to Alexander N. Crowder and Deborah Jane Warfield, in Baltimore, Maryland.CROWDER, Frank Warfield in ''Who's Who in America'' (14th edition; 1926); p. 537 He graduated from Dickinson College in 1890.His obituary says he attended Randolph–Macon College in Virginia. He was a reverend in the Rowayton section of Norwalk, Connecticut, from 1890 to 1893. He married Louetta Plitt (1868-1936) on April 11, 1893, and they had as their son, Maxwell Alexander Warfield Crowder (1898-1915). He died on September 27, 1932, at Johns Hopkin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Courtney
Frederick Courtney (5 January 1837 – 29 December 1918) was an eminent Anglican bishop, the fifth Bishop of Nova Scotia. Life and career Born in Plymouth into an ecclesiastical family – his father was Septimus Courtney, vicar of Charles Chapel – he was educated at King's College London and ordained in 1864. His first post was a curacy at Hadlow, Kent after which he was the incumbent of Charles Chapel, Plymouth (which became St Luke's) until 1870 and then St Jude's, Glasgow until 1876 when he emigrated to North America. He was an Assistant at St Thomas's, New York City until 1880 then Rector of St James's, Chicago. His last post before appointment to the episcopate A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of dioceses. The role ... was at St Paul's, Boston. After he retired as Bishop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
