Benjamin B. Smith

Bishop B. B. Smith.

Benjamin Bosworth Smith (June 13, 1794 – 1884) was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.

Early life

He was born at Bristol, R. I., and lost his father when he was 5 years old. Nonetheless, he graduated at Brown University in 1816.[1]

Career

The following year he was ordained, beginning his ministry at Marblehead, Mass. He held several pastoral charges and was for a time editor of the Episcopal Recorder at Philadelphia. His last rectorship, in Lexington, Ky., he held until 1837, though in 1832 he had become Bishop of the diocese. While he was presiding Bishop (from 1868), a separatist movement, which became the Reformed Episcopal Church, was organized under the leadership of Bishop Smith's own assistant bishop, George David Cummins. He published Saturday Evening (1876) and Apostolic Succession (1877).

In the late 1860s, he helped establish schools and hire teachers to work with former slaves throughout the south.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ W. Robert Insko, Kentucky Bishop (Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Historical Society 1952)pp. 1-2
  2. ↑ Simmons, William J., and Henry McNeal Turner. Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising. GM Rewell & Company, 1887. p744-751

Sources

  •  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "article name needed". New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by
John Henry Hopkins		 9th Presiding Bishop
1868–1884		 Succeeded by
Alfred Lee
Preceded by
New Diocese		 1st Bishop of Kentucky
1832-1884		 Succeeded by
Thomas U. Dudley



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.