Samuel Henry Bishop

Background

Bishop, Samuel Henry was born on May 1, 1864 in Jericho, Vermont, United States. Son of Leet Asa and Aurill (Clark) Bishop.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, University of Vermont, 1886. Graduate Union Theological Seminary, New New York 1891, post-graduate, 1893-1894. Also studied, Columbia University, universities of Berlin and Oxford.

Career

Deacon and priest, Protestant Episcopal Church, 1891. Assistant, Church of the Incarnation. New York, 1891-1892; in charge, All Souls’, New York, 1892-1893.

Rector, St. Andrew’s, S. Orange, New Jersey, 1893-1897. St. Stephen’s, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1898-1899. General agent, American Church Institute for Negroes, New York, since 1906.

Author: The Words of the Christ. Recent Changes in Theology in the Episcopal Church. The Bible as History.

The Virgin Birth, an Irenicon. A Study in Religion; The Religion of the Typal Life. The Church and Charity.

English and German Universities. Home: New York, New York.

Connections

Married Rosilla Bertha Darrow, September 13, 1897.

Father:

Leet Asa Bishop

Mother:

Aurill (Clark) Bishop

Spouse:

Rosilla Bertha Darrow