The Right Reverend Theodore Dehon (December 8, 1776 – August 6, 1817) was the second Bishop of South Carolina.
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Theodore Dehon was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard University in 1795. He was ordained deacon by Bishop Edward Bass, in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on December 24, 1797 and the next month began his call as rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. He was ordained priest, October 9, 1800.
After paying a visit to South Carolina he was offered positions in Charleston, but demurred until 1810, when he accepted a position as rector of St. Michael's Church, Charleston. He was elected diocesan bishop in February 1812 and was consecrated on October 15, 1812. After the General Convention in New York City in 1817, he returned to Charleston but contracted yellow fever, dying August 6. He was buried St. Michael's Church. His writings met with some posthumous success.
Obit as reported in the Essex Register of Saturday 23 August 1817: To our bill of mortality we have to add the death of the Right Reverend Theodore Dehon, D.D aged 41, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the English Communion, in S. Carolina, on the 6th instant. Tis amiable man and truly Christan Bishop was born in Boston, and graduated at Cambridge in 1795. He succeeded Bishop Robert Smith, who died in 1801, but not immedicately, but in 1812. To a suavity of manners, correct elocution, and a soul of devotion, he added the purity and best accomplishments of life, a just taste, and an excellent judgement, with an extensive knowledge of the duties and the studies of his profession.
Theodore Dehon was the 11th bishop consecrated for the Episcopal Church.
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| Preceded by Robert Smith |
2nd Bishop of South Carolina 1812 – 1817 |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Bowen |