Background
Dehon, Theodore was born on December 8, 1776 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Dehon, Theodore was born on December 8, 1776 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
Graduated from Harvard, 1795. Studied theology Trinity College Ordained deacon Protestant Episcopal Church
He was ordained deacon by Bishop Edward Bass in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on December 24, 1797, and the next month began his call as rector of Trinity Church, Newport, Rhode Island. He was ordained priest on October 9, 1800. After paying a visit to South Carolina he was offered positions in Charleston, but demurred until 1810, when he accepted a position as rector of Saint Michael"s Church, Charleston.
He was elected diocesan bishop in February 1812 and was consecrated on October 15, 1812.
After the General Convention in New York City in 1817, he returned to Charleston but contracted yellow fever, dying August 6. He was buried at Saint Michael"s Church.
His writings met with some posthumous success. This amiable man and truly Christian Bishop was born in Boston, and graduated at Cambridge in 1795.
He succeeded Bishop Robert Smith, who died in 1801, but not immediately, but in 1812.
Consecrators
William White, 1st bishop of Pennsylvania and 1st and 4th Presiding Bishop
Abraham Jarvis, 2nd bishop of Connecticut
John Henry Hobart, 3rd bishop of New New York