Background
CO DEM AN, Deighton was born on May 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Reverend John Coleman, Doctor of Divinity.
CO DEM AN, Deighton was born on May 3, 1837 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Reverend John Coleman, Doctor of Divinity.
Episcopal Academy, Philadelphia. Doctor of Laws.
General Theological Seminary, New York. Rector of St. Luke’s Church, Bustleton, Pennsylvania (United States). St. John’s Church, Wilmington, Delaware.
St. Mark’s Church, Maucli Chunk, Pennsylvania. Trinity Church, Toledo, Ohio. Church of the Redeemer, Sayre, Pennsylvania.
Elected first Bishop of Fond du Lao, and declined, 1875. Member and officer in various patriotic, masonic, literary, and civic societies. For several years in charge of several parishes in England, and for nearly three years Organising Secretary of the Church of England Temperance Society for the Diocese of Oxford. S. Territorial Decoration, Bishop of Delaware since 1888.
Pedestrianism and cricket.