Title: A History of Advocacy in the Episcopal Church 1789 - 1997
1A History of Advocacy in the Episcopal
Church1789 - 1997
21784
- Samuel Seabury is consecrated as the 1st Bishop
of the American Church by the non juring bishops
in Scotland. - In return, Bishop Seabury agrees that the
American church will use the Scottish Prayer Book.
31789
General Convention
- adopted the Constitution of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in America.
41794
Absalom Jones
- Organized the Free African Society
- First African-American Episcopal Priest, 1802
Commemorated on February 13
51826
Urged Sunday Schools to teach the beliefs of the
Episcopal Church, using Bible The Book of Common
Prayer Catechism
61835
General Convention
- All Members are considered missionaries.
71851
Thomas Gallaudet
- Bible class for deaf people at St. Stephens
Church New York NY
Commemorated on August 27
81853
William Augustus Muhlenburg
- Muhlenburg Memorial
- Asks the Church to
- - Work with other denominations.
- - Present the Gospel in an American Context.
Commemorated April 8
91854
James Lloyd Beck
- Apostle of the Wilderness
- Worked among the Oneida, Chippewa Ojibwa
101858
- The University of the South (Sewanee) is founded.
111859
26th General Convention
- Go among the poor, the outcasts, the unloved and
the degraded.
121861
- The first meeting of the General Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in the Confederate
States of America. - Although they never separated from the Church,
they met three more times before 1865.
131865
Phillips Brooks
Popularly known for the lyrics to O Little Town
of Bethlehem.
Wrote a sermon praising Lincoln and condemning
slavery.
Commemorated on January 23
141865
Sister Constance her Companions
- Formed the Sisterhood of St. Mary to minister to
the sick and dying of the Memphis Yellow Fever
Epidemic.
The Martyrs of Memphis are remembered on
September 9
151866
- Anna Julia Cooper was Christian educator and
advocate for children who educated freed
African-Americans after the Civil War.
161871
General Convention
- Authorized the women of the church to organize
the Auxiliary. In January of 1872, it began its
work.
Julia Chester Emory served as the General
Secretary to the Board of Missions for forty
years.
She is commemorated on January 9
171874
William D Wilson
- In his address The Mutual Obligations of Capital
and Labor to the first Church Congress, said
To the poor Christ said, Be content with your
wages, and to the rich, Work with your own
hands.
181876
Henry Winter Syle
- Ordained to the Diaconate making him the first
deaf person to be ordained.
Commemorated on August 27
191883
Conference on the Relation of the Church to the
Colored People
- Meeting at Sewanee, drafted a canon to separate
Black Episcopalians into a non-geographical
racial diocese.
201883
Richard Hooker Wilmer
- Did not support separate jurisdiction for Black
Episcopalians.
The only bishop consecrated in the Confederate
States.
211889
United Offering
- Now known as the United Thank Offering, was
established by the Womens Auxiliary to the Board
of Missions of the Episcopal Church.
221907
- Church Workers Among Colored People
The report recommended integration of Black
Episcopalians into the Episcopal Church.
Opposed the 1883 Sewanee Conferences proposal to
have non geographical racial dioceses.
231909
Charles D. Williams Fourth Bishop of Michigan
- Believed that labor was not a commodity.
The value of a man is more precious than a bale
of cotton.
241916
William Lawrence Seventh Bishop of Massachusetts
- We must turn our forces to give the children
education through the home, the church and all
the influences of life.
The child develops in mind, body and spirit
through our aid and leadership.
251917
Paul Jones Fourth Bishop of Utah
- Opposed Americas participation in World War I.
- Said, War is Un-Christian.
And, was forced to resign.
Commemorated on September 4
261922
47th General Convention
- In response to World War I, the House of Bishops
called for a warless world and a reduction of
armaments.
271929
- Appalachian School at Penland
Established by the United Thank Offering, in the
Diocese of Western North Carolina, its community
work has helped to reconnect the generations by
serving as nurse, home and parent for boys and
girls between the ages of 2 and 14.
281934
Vida Scudder
In The Spirit of Missions her article on social
awareness and action, she writes
- The church advances toward triumph only if we,
her children, march with the Cross of Christ
before us. -
291948
Seabury Curriculum
- Designed to bring the best of theory and practice
to bear on present needs in Christian education.
301948
Seabury Curriculum designated 5 major areas of
Christian knowledge
- 1. Gods self-revelation are recorded in the
Bible and in Christs life and teachings. - 2. Historic life of the Church, including present
day work. - 3. The beliefs of the Church.
- 4. The Prayer Book, liturgy, and worship of the
Church. - 5. The world in which we live and the Christians
duties, problems and opportunities in it.
311952
Crisis at Sewanee
- Board of Trustees vote not to admit African
Americans into its student body.
8 faculty resign.
321955
General Convention
- In response to Brown v Board of Education of
Topeka KS, passed a resolution calling for racial
cooperation in the Episcopal Church.
331961
John M. Gessell
- Education includes our real-life together,
serving Christ in community.
The result of our education for religious life
is that we are raising a generation of stillborn
children. The Urgency of the Churchs
Educational Task
341965
Jonathan Daniels
- He attended Holy Communion in Selma, Alabama,
with some of his friends who were
African-American. They werent welcome at the
altar
August 20th, he stepped into the pathway of a
bullet intended for a 17 year old girl, and was
killed.
Commemorated on August 14
351967
John Hines former Presiding Bishop
- In his sermon to the 67th Convention, called for
a commitment to social justice. - Commissioned the Bayne Report on the role of the
church relative to social criticism.
361968
- The founding of the Union of Black Epsicopalians
at St. Augustines College in Raleigh NC. - Its mission to combat racism in the life of the
church and the larger community.
Bishop Quinitor Ebenezer Primo was the first
president.
371968
Jenny Moore
- The People on Second Street Ministry
- This shared ministry brought together the people
of Jersey City NJ and Grace Episcopal Church to
work with the poor, hungry and rejected.
381969
- Judy Ward Lineback is the first woman to
matriculate at the University of the South.
391969
- General Convention passes a resolution in
opposition to the death penalty.
401974
John Westerhoff
- Challenged the church to an educational revival.
We are to know ourselves as molders of history.
411974
- 11 Women are ordained irregularly in
Philadelphia. - Dubbed the Philadelphia Eleven.
Their ordinations were not validated until 1979.
421976
Report of the Joint Committee of the Church and
Human Affairs
- Affirmed the personhood of homosexuals and
recognizes their contributions to the Church and
to Society.
431977
Ellen M. Barrett
- Was ordained by the Right Rev. Paul Moore, making
her the first openly homosexual clergy person in
the Episcopal Church.
441979
- General Convention authorizes an official church
presence in Washington DC. The Washington
Office, now called the Office of Government
Relations, is the most recent mainline
denominational office to open.
451979
Journey Toward Justice
Institutional racism is any policy or practice of
an organization which benefits one race at the
expense of other races.
- The report on the Institutional Racism Project in
the Diocese of Southern Ohio.
It is not the motivation of the institution or
its members that counts. What counts are the
results from the policies and practices.
461982
- Archbishop Desmond Tutu addresses General
Convention in New Orleans. - General Convention creates Jubilee Ministries and
the Public Policy Network.
471982
- The Presiding Bishops Fund for World Relief
celebrated its 50th anniversary.
481985
- Edmond Browning
- Former Presiding Bishop
This Church of ours is open to all -- There will
be no outcasts. Address to General Convention
491990
- Verna Dozier
- Adjunct faculty member at Virginia Theological
Seminary.
...that, to me, is the possibility for a new
humanity, every man, woman and child says yes to
themselves and yes to every other human
being. Saying Yes in a No World, The Witness
Photo by Bob Kinney
501994
National Episcopal Childrens Advocacy Conference
- In Cincinnati OH, child advocates from across the
country gathered to discuss ways to implement
programs to advocate and minister for and with
children and families in various ways.
511995
- Church Insurance Company mandates child abuse
prevention training for all priests and staff who
work with children.
521995
TREASURE Kids! Project
- What would the Episcopal Church look like if
children were accepted as full and participating
members of the body of Christ?
The TREASURE Kids! Project asked Gretchen
Pritchard to look at their material...
In the Episcopal Church we TREASURE KIDS!
she molded it into the Childrens Charter for
the Church.
531996
Stand for Children
- On June 1, 1996 Episcopalians from across the
country joined with more than 100,000 others to
support the Childrens Defense Funds call to
raise awareness for children.
541997
Resolution passed asking each diocese to read
and study the
Each diocese is then asked to live it out
locally.
551998
- 400 people gathered to explore the Childrens
Charter and ways to live it out in their parishes
and dioceses.
56This information compiled from
- Don Armentrout, Robert Slocum, Documents of
Witness A History of the Episcopal Church
1782-1985. Church Hymnal Corporation, 1994 - David Holmes, A Brief History of the Episcopal
Church, Trinity Press International, 1993 - Robert Prichard, A History of the Episcopal
Church, Morehouse Publishing, 1991. - Lesser Feasts and Fasts, Church Pension Fund, 1998
57Compiled by
- Childrens Ministries OfficeEpiscopal Church
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