Arthur Cleveland Coxe

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Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818 - 1896), was the son of Samuel Hanson Cox, but changed the spelling of the family name.

He graduated at the University of the City of New York in 1838 and at the General Theological Seminary in 1841. He was rector of St John's Church, Hartford, in 1843-1854, of Grace Church, Baltimore, in 1854-1863, and of Calvary Church, New York City, in 1863.

In 1863 he became assistant bishop and in 1865 bishop of Western New York. He was strongly influenced by the Oxford Movement. Bishop Coxe wrote spirited defences of Anglican orders and published several volumes of verse, notably Christian Ballads (1845). His theological works were: The Criterion, (1866); Apollos, or the Way of God, (1873); and The Institutes of Christian History, (1887).

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