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Abram Newkirk Littlejohn was an American clergyman.
Background
Abram Newkirk Littlejohn was born on December 13, 1824 in Florida, Montgomery County, New York, United States, where his maternal grandfather, Abram Newkirk, was among the early settlers of the region. Soon after his birth his parents, John and Eleanor (Newkirk) Littlejohn, removed to Johnstown, New York.
Education
He graduated with high standing from Union College in 1845. Later he studied privately for the ministry of the Episcopal Church.
Career
Littlejohn was ordained deacon March 19, 1848, by Bishop William Heathcote DeLancey of Western New York. After a brief ministry in St. Ann's Church, Amsterdam, New York, he removed to St. Andrew's Church, Meriden, Connecticut, and was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Thomas C. Brownell in Christ Church, Hartford, June 12, 1849.
In 1850-1851 he was in charge of Christ Church, Springfield, Massachusetts, and then became rector of St. Paul's Church, New Haven, Connecticut, where his successful ministry brought him into prominence. He served as lecturer in pastoral theology at the Berkeley Divinity School during most of his rectorship at St. Paul's. In 1858 he was elected president of Geneva (now Hobart) College, Geneva, New York, but declined the office.
He was called in 1860 to the Church of the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn, New York, where both as a preacher and pastor he attained notable success. When, in 1868, two new dioceses, those of Central New York and Long Island, were created in the state of New York, he had the honor of being elected simultaneously by both to the office of bishop. He chose Long Island, and was consecrated to the episcopate in his own church on January 27, 1869. He interested Alexander T. Stewart, the New York merchant, and his wife, and through their donations the Cathedral Church of the Incarnation was erected at Garden City, Long Island, in 1885. After Stewart's death his widow gave a large sum for the endowment of the work, and the Cathedral Schools, St. Paul's for boys and St. Mary's for girls, were erected on the same foundation. Littlejohn was in charge of the American Episcopal churches in Europe from 1874 to 1885. He officiated at the consecration of the American Church of St. Paul at Rome.
He was invited in 1880 by the University of Cambridge, England, to deliver a course of lectures, which were afterward published under the title, Individualism: Its Growth and Tendencies, with Some Suggestions as to the Remedy for Its Evils (1881); and in 1884 he delivered the Paddock Lectures at the General Theological Seminary, published that year as The Christian Ministry at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. He died suddenly, in his seventy-seventh year, while visiting in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
Achievements
Littlejohn was the first Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Long Island. He was one of the earliest members of the American episcopate to press for the erection of a cathedral (Cathedral Church of the Incarnation). He was instrumental in establishing the present Church of the Holy Trinity in Paris. In the field of literature he attained a considerable reputation and contributed articles on literary, philosophical, and religious topics to American and English reviews.