John Williams (bishop)

John Williams (bishop)

John Williams (1817–1899) was an American bishop of the Episcopal church. He was born at Deerfield, Massachusetts, and educated at Harvard and at Trinity College, Hartford, where he graduated in 1835. He was ordained in 1841, and held the rectorship of St. George's Church, Schenectady, New York, from 1842 to 1848, after which he became president of Trinity College, and at the same time professor of history and literature. In 1851 he was elected Assistant Bishop of Connecticut, and on the death of Bishop Brownell, in 1865, succeeded him in the sole charge of the diocese. At the same time, from 1854 on, he held the office of dean of the Berkeley Divinity School, at Middletown, and was its principal instructor in Church history and theology. He succeeded Alfred Lee, of Delaware, in 1887, as presiding Bishop, and earned the reputation of a wise conservative leader in ecclesiastical affairs. Among his published works are:
* "Thoughts on the Gospel Miracles" (1848)
* "The English Reformation" (Paddock Lectures, 1881)
* "The World's Witness to Jesus Christ" (Bedell Lectures, 1882)
* "Studies in the Book of the Acts" (1888)

External links

* [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/jwilliams/ Documents by Williams] from Project Canterbury

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