Robert Smith (bishop)

The Right Reverend Robert Smith (1732 – 1801), was the first American Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina. [ [http://www.sc.edu/uscpress/2007/3665.html Listing for "The American Revolution and Righteous Community: Selected Sermons of Bishop Robert Smith", edited by Charles Wilbanks] ]

Smith also founded and served as first president of the College of Charleston.

At age 25, Smith became the first rector of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Charleston. He was consecrated bishop of South Carolina in 1795, the sixth bishop in the American Episcopal succession.

Consecrators

* The Right Reverend Samuel Seabury, 1st bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving Connecticut, and 2nd Presiding Bishop.
* The Right Reverend Samuel Provoost, 3rd bishop of the Episcopal Church, first bishop of New York
* The Right Reverend James Madison, 4th bishop of the Episcopal Church, first bishop of Virginia

ee also

* List of Bishop Succession in the Episcopal Church

Notes and References

External links

* [http://www.dioceseofsc.org/ Web site of the Diocese of South Carolina]
* [http://www.episcopalchurch.org/ Episcopal Church in the United States of America]