William PARET

Background

PARET, William was born on September 23, 1826 in New York, United States. Son of John and Hester Paret.

Education

Reared in New York City, he attended grammar school until age 14, at which time he began working as a clerk in a wholesale dry good store. He studied for his orders under the Right Reverend William Heathcote DeLancey. In 1886 Hobart College awarded him his Doctor of Laws

Career

While pursuing his education at Hobart College he also taught in Syracuse, New York and at the Academy at Moravia, New New York He received his doctorate of divinity degree from Hobart College in 1867. William Paret was ordained a deacon on July 2, 1852 in Trinity Church, Geneva, New York by Bishop Carlton Chase.

He received his priest"s orders in Grace Church, Rochester, New York on June 38, 1853 from Bishop DeLancey.

He was rector of these churches:

Saint John"s, Clyde, New York, 1852–1854

Zion, Pierrepont Manor, New York, 1854–1864

Saint Paul"s, East Saginaw, Michigan, 1864–1866

Trinity Church, Elmira, New York, 1866–1888

Christ Church, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, 1868–1876

Church of the Epiphany, Washington, District of Columbia, 1876–1884

In 1882, Review Paret exchanged public letters concerning church practices with Review

John Habersham Elliott (1832-1906). In 1884 Paret was elected to succeed Bishop William Pinkney as Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, following Bishop Pinkney"s death in 1883.

Paret was consecrated the sixth Bishop of Maryland on January 8, 1885 at his own Church of the Epiphany in Washington, District of Columbia At the Maryland Episcopal Diocesan Convention of 1894, Paret denounced - "a stinging phillipic fell from his lips" -- those parishes that used incense and other ritualstic practices, such as the use of confessionals, which was an attack on high church Anglican parishes such as Mount Calvary Church in Baltimore and Saint Andrew"s Church in Princess Anne, Maryland.

Those parishes were "practically excommunicated" as Paret refused to visit them. In 1895 the Diocese of Maryland was divided to form the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. In 1904, the diocese of Maryland published a collection of his pastoral instructions concerning pastoral use of the prayer book

Two years later, T. Whittaker publishers of New York published his The place and function of the Sunday school in the church.

G.W. Jacobs Company of Philadelphia published Paret"s Remniscences in the year of his death. Bishop Paret died of pneumonia January 18, 1911 in Baltimore.

He is buried in Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington, District of Columbia

Achievements

• William Paret has been listed as a noteworthy bishop by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Place and Function of the Sunday School in the Church (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Place and Function of the Sunday School ...)

  • The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book

    (Bishop Paret's examination of the Prayer Book and how its...)

  • The Pastoral Use Of The Prayer Book: The Substance Of Plain Talks Given To His Students And Younger Clergy - Scholar's Choice Edition

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  • The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book; The Substance of Plain Talks Given to His Students and Younger Clergy

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  • The Pastoral Use Of The Prayer Book: The Substance Of Plain Talks Given To His Students And Younger Clergy

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  • The Pastoral Use of the Prayer Book: The Substance of Plain Talks Given to His Students and Younger Clergy - Primary Source Edition

    ( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)

  • The Place and Function of the Sunday School in the Church... - Primary Source Edition

    ( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)

  • St. Peter and the primacy of the Roman See: A lecture delivered in St. Thomas's Church, New York

Interests

• Fishing.

Connections

Married Maria G. Peck, August 22, 1849.

Father:

John Paret

Mother:

Hester Paret

Spouse:

Maria G. Peck