Henry Winter Syle
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Henry Winter Syle (November 9, 1846 - January 6, 1890) was the first deaf person to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States.
Henry Winter Syle was born in Shanghai, China; Syle was a student and parishioner of Thomas Gallaudet. He was deaf from an early age. He attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, St. John's College in Cambridge, England and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Syle was encouraged to become a priest by Gallaudet. On October 14, 1884, he became the first deaf person to be ordained by the Episcopal Church in the United States. He established a congregation for the deaf in 1888 and died on January 6, 1890.
He is commemorated along with his teacher, Thomas Gallaudet on August 27 on the Episcopal calendar of saints.
