Sylvanus Charles Breyfogel

Background

Sylvanus Breyfogel was born 20 July 1851 in Reading, Pennsylvania. He was the son of the Review and Mistress Seneca Breyfogel. In 1877 Breyfogel married Boas and together they had two sons and four daughters.

One of their daughters married the Review

Doctor Great Britain Kimmel, sometime President of the Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois. Another daughter married the Review

General Electric Schnabel, later the Pastor of the Albright Memorial E.A. Church, Washington, District of Columbia

Career

Breyfogel was licensed to Preach by the East Pennsylvania Annual Conference of the Evangelical Association. He was ordained in 1873. He served as a Pastor and as a District Superintendent until his election to the Episcopacy.

Breyfogel was made a Bishop by the 1891 General Conference of the Evangelical Association, meeting in Indianapolis.

He served in this office for thirty-nine years. He retired at the General Conference of 1930, meeting in Milwaukee.

Connections

Father:

Seneca Breyfogel

Mother:

Sarah (Ely) Breyfogel

Spouse:

Kate Boas

child:

Mistress G. B. Kimmel Breyfogel

child:

Charles F. Ordained in ministry of Evangelical Ch Breyfogel

child:

Emily B. Breyfogel

child:

Frank Ely Breyfogel

child:

Mistress R. K. Bowman Breyfogel

child:

Mistress G. E. Schnabel Breyfogel