Edward Bass

Edward Bass

The Right Reverend Edward Bass (November 23, 1726 – September 10, 1803), was the first American Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of Massachusetts and second bishop of the Diocese of Rhode Island.

Bass attended Harvard University, graduating in 1744. He taught and preached in Congregationalist churches, then went to England to be ordained by the bishop of London in May 1752. He had been appointed assistant at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Newburyport, Massachusetts, in 1749 by the new rector, Matthias Plant, [ [http://www.stpauls-nbpt.org/history/rectors/rectors.html St. Paul's Church, Newburyport, Mass.] ] whom he followed as rector in 1753, serving until his death in 1803.

Bass considered himself neutral during the American Revolution but was accused by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts of supporting the colonists and lost his financial support. In May 1789, the first convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts, meeting in Salem, elected Bass bishop of Massachusetts and Rhode Island but his parish rejected the election because lay delegates did not participate. In 1796 in Boston, Bass was unanimously re-elected bishop of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine, with lay participation, and was consecrated in Philadelphia on May 7, 1797. He also oversaw the churches in New Hampshire and is listed by the Diocese of Rhode Island as its second bishop. Edward Bass was the 7th bishop consecrated for the Episcopal Church.

Bass died on September 10, 1803, just before he was to travel to Portland, Maine. James Morss in his diary, wrote of him, "He felt ill on Saturday and felt he could not preach Sunday night and was concerned about my conducting the service without him as I had not done so before, but he was dead before Sunday."

Consecrators

* The Right Reverend William White, 2nd bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving Pennsylvania, and 1st and 4th Presiding Bishops
* The Right Reverend Samuel Provoost, 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Church, first bishop of New York
* The Right Reverend Thomas John Claggett, 5th bishop of the Episcopal Church, first bishop of Maryland

ee also

* List of Bishop Succession in the Episcopal Church

Notes and References

External links

* [http://www.diomass.org/ Web site of the Diocese of Massachusetts]
* [http://www.episcopalri.org/ Web site of the Diocese of Rhode Island]
* [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ Episcopal Church in the United States of America]


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