Background
Pendleton, Nathaniel Dandridge was born on February 19, 1865 in Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. Son of Philip Coleman and Catherine (Tebeau) Pendleton.
Pendleton, Nathaniel Dandridge was born on February 19, 1865 in Lowndes County, Georgia, United States. Son of Philip Coleman and Catherine (Tebeau) Pendleton.
Bachelor of Theology, Theological School of Academy of the New Church (Swedenborgian), Philadelphia, 1889.
Cornelia; married second, Beatrice Walton Childs, August 30, 1899. Children—Philip Childs, Marion Childs, Jean Lowrie, Willard Dandridge, Nancy Tebeau. Ordained 1st (ministerial) degree New Church, 1889.
Minister Emanuel Church, Chicago, 1889-1891.
Ordained 2d (pastoral) degree, March 2, 1891. Pastor Emanuel Church, 1891-1903, Pittsburgh Church of the New Jerusalem, 1903-1914.
Ordained 3d (Episcopal) degree, November 17, 1912. Elected bishop of the General Church of the New Jerusalem by the General Assembly, June 15, 1916.
Episcopal seat Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, diocese, including congregations in the United States, Canada, England, France, Holland, Sweden, Brazil, Natal (South Africa) and Australia.
President Academy of the New Church, Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. President Corporation of the General Church. Professor theology Theological School, Bryn Athyn.
Contributor theological and philosophical articles to New Church Life, official organ of the General Church Home: Bryn Athyn.
Married Cornelia Vosburg, April. Married second, Beatrice Walton Childs, August 30, 1899. Children: Philip Childs, Marion Childs, Jean Lowrie, Willard Dandridge, Nancy Tebeau.