Horatio Potter

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The Right Reverend Horatio Potter (1802-1887), was an Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York.

The brother of Alonzo Potter, he was born in Beekman, New York, on 9 February 1802. He graduated at Union College in 1826, was ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1828, was rector for several months in Saco, Maine, and from 1828 to 1833 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Washington College (now Trinity College), Hartford, Connecticut.

From 1833 to 1854 he was rector of St. Peter's Church, Albany, New York. In November 1854 he was elected provincial bishop of New York in place of Benjamin Treadwell Onderdonk (1791-1861), who had been suspended, and upon Onderdonk's death he became Diocesan bishop.

In 1868 his diocese was divided, the new dioceses of Albany, Central New York and Long Island being separated from it. Bishop Potter attended the Lambeth Conferences of 1867 and 1868. His failing health put an end to his active service in 1883, when his nephew, Henry C. Potter, became his assistant. He died in New York City on 2 January 1887.

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• The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).

The Light of the World, by Horatio Potter

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