OF THE ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE Protestant Episcopal Church IN THE DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT HELD IN ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, HARTFORD TUESDAY, JUNE 9th 1896 PUBLIC PRINTED FOR THE DIOCESE INOX AND 1702, September 12-15-Missionaries of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, (George Keith and John Talbot,) visited New London. 1707-Christ Church, Stratford, organized. 1722, September 13—Dr. Timothy Cutler, Rector of Yale College, Samuel Johnson, Daniel Brown and James Wetmore declared for the Church of England. 1750-Missionaries in Connecticut, II; Missions, 25. 1783, March 25-Meeting of ten Connecticut Clergymen at Woodbury. Rev. Jeremiah Leaming, their first choice, and Rev. Samuel Seabury, their second, for Bishop. 1784, November 14 (Sunday)-The Rev. Samuel Seabury consecrated first Bishop of Connecticut (and first in the United States), at Aberdeen, Scotland, by Bishops Kilgour, Petrie and Skinner. 1785, August 2-Meeting of the Bishop and Clergy of Connecticut at Middletown. 1785, August 3-First Ordination of Deacons, in Christ Church, Middletown. 1785, August 7-First Ordination to the Priesthood, in Christ Church, Middletown. 1786, July-St. Paul's Church, Norwalk, consecrated. 1792, June 6-First Convention of Bishop, Clergy and Laity, in Trinity Church, New Haven. 1796, February 25-Bishop Seabury died, in New London. 1797, October 18-The Rev. Abraham Jarvis, D.D., consecrated second Bishop of Connecticut, in Trinity Church, New Haven, by Bishops White, Provoost and Bass. 1813, May 5-Bishop Jarvis died, in New Haven. 1816 to 1819-The Rt. Rev. John Henry Hobart, D.D., Bishop of New York, was (by election) in charge of the Diocese of Connecticut. 1819, October 27-The Rev. Thomas Church Brownell, D.D., consecrated third Bishop of Connecticut, in Trinity Church, New Haven, by Bishops White, Hobart and Griswold. 1851, October 29-The Rey John Williams, D.D., consecrated Assistant Bishop in St John's Church, Hartford, by Bishops Brownell, Hopkin, De Lancey, Eastburn, Chase, Henshaw and Burgess. 1865, January 3 Bistrop Brownell died, in Hartford, and Bishop Williams became the fourth Bishop of the Diocese. The date when each Institution of the Diocese was founded or chartered will be found on pages 4-8; and the date of each Parish, on pages 34-40. |