George Washington Doane

infobox bishopbiog
name = George Washington Doane


religion=Episcopal Church in the United States of America
See = Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey
Title = Bishop of New Jersey
Period = 1832 — 1859
consecration =
Predecessor = John Croes
Successor = William Henry Odenheimer
post = Rector, Trinity Church, Boston| bishops= none
ordination = 1823
date of birth = birth date|1799|5|27|mf=y
place of birth = Trenton, New Jersey|

George Washington Doane (May 27, 1799 - April 27, 1859), was a United States churchman, and bishop in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey.

He was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1818, studied theology and, in 1821, was ordained deacon and in 1823 priest by Bishop Hobart, whom he assisted in Trinity church, New York. With George Upfold (1796-1872), Bishop of Indiana from 1849 to 1872, Doane founded St Luke's in New York City. From 1824–1828 he was professor of belles-lettres in Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Connecticut, and at this time he was one of the editors of the Episcopal Watchman. He was assistant in 1828-1830 and rector in 1830-1832 of Christ church, Boston, and was bishop of New Jersey from October 1832 to his death at Burlington, New Jersey. He was buried in the burial grounds that surround St. Mary's Episcopal Church on Broad Street in Burlington.

The diocese of New Jersey was an unpromising field, but he took up his work there with characteristic vigour, especially in the foundation of St. Mary's Hall-Doane Academy (1837, for girls) and Burlington College (1846) as demonstrations of his theory of education under church control. His business management of these schools got him heavily into debt, and in the autumn of 1852 a charge of lax administration came before a court of bishops, who dismissed it.

The schools showed him an able and wise disciplinarian, and his patriotic orations and sermons prove him a speaker of great power. He belonged to the High Church party and was a brilliant controversialist. He published [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/gwdoane/songs1860/ 'Songs by the Way'] (1824), a volume of poems; and his hymns beginning "Softly now the light of day" and "Thou art the Way" are well known.

Among those that Doane ordained was Joseph Wolff, the Jewish Christian missionary.

See "Life and Writings of George Washington Doane" (4 vols, New York, 1860-1861), edited by his son, William Croswell Doane (b. 1832), first bishop of Albany.

He was buried in Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington, New Jersey. [ [http://www.stmarysburlington.org/churchyard.htm#gwdoane George Washington Doane] , Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard. Accessed August 21, 2007.]

References

ources

* "The Episcopal Church Annual". Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
* [http://newjersey.anglican.org/Diocese/bishops.html Bishops of the Diocese of New Jersey]
* Doane, George Washington, Bishop of New Jersey, "The apostolical commission the missionary charter of the church". The Sermon [on Matt. xxviii. 18-20] at the ordination of Joseph Wolff in ... Newark, Sept. 26, 1837.

External links

* [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/gwdoane/ Doane's works online]
* [http://www.newarkhistory.com/doane.html A feature on George Hobart Doane, a son of George Washington Doane who converted to Catholicism]