Samuel Parker (Episcopal bishop)

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The Most Reverend Samuel Parker (August 17, 1744 – December 6, 1804) was the second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

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[edit] Education and Ordination

Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, son of William Parker, a lawyer and judge during the American Revolution, Samuel Parker graduated Harvard University in 1764, taught for several years.

After being offered a job as assistant rector of Trinity Church, Boston, was ordained deacon and priest in London in February 1774. He began as assistant rector at Trinity in November 1774, becoming rector in 1779. After the Revolution, he helped build churches with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.

In 1803, Parker he was unanimously elected third bishop of Massachusetts. He was consecrated September 16, 1804, in Trinity Church, New York, but developed gout and never served in the post. He died in Boston on December 6, 1804.

[edit] Consecrators

Samuel Parker was the 10th bishop consecrated in the Episcopal Church.

[edit] Publications

  • Annual Election Sermon before the Legislature of Massachusetts (1793)
  • Sermon for the Benefit of the Boston Female Asylum (1803)
  • History of the Grammar-School in East Parish, Roxbury (Boston, 1826)
  • Aids to English Composition (1832)
  • Natural Philosophy (1837)
  • Tribute to the Life and Character of Jonas Chickering (1854)
  • National Series of Readers with James M. Watson (1858)

[edit] References

[edit] See also

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Preceded by
Edward Bass		 Bishop of Massachusetts
1804		 Succeeded by
Alexander Viets Griswold