Just a suggested correction to the title of the thread. I’m sure Kendall means bishops WHO have been denied consent or have declined.
To me, the most notable thing about these lists is how extremely rare it’s become for bishops to be denied consent, compared to the early years of PECUSA/TEC. The last case before Forrester was in 1934. And there were only three cases in all of the 20th century.
That amounts to a very dubious honor indeed for Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester, to be the first bishop elect denied consent in 75 years. What a sorry way to go down in history!
Not good history on the early days of the Episcopal Church
(1) William Smith was not approved by General Convention. He was Provost of the College of Philadelphia and taught William White and a generation of Pennsylvania area clergy, during and after the Revolution he served in Chestertown, Maryland, and organized Washington College and the Episcopal Church in Maryland. I don’t know where the notion that he went ot England for consecration came from.
(2) Samuel Peters was an ecclesiastical adventurer. His election in Vermont relates to claims to some property granted there to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
(3) See Bishop White’s _Memoirs_ for Ogden who was not cofirmed by the General Convention on dubious grounds.
Kendall or the Elves,
Just a suggested correction to the title of the thread. I’m sure Kendall means bishops WHO have been denied consent or have declined.
To me, the most notable thing about these lists is how extremely rare it’s become for bishops to be denied consent, compared to the early years of PECUSA/TEC. The last case before Forrester was in 1934. And there were only three cases in all of the 20th century.
That amounts to a very dubious honor indeed for Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester, to be the first bishop elect denied consent in 75 years. What a sorry way to go down in history!
David Handy+
Not good history on the early days of the Episcopal Church
(1) William Smith was not approved by General Convention. He was Provost of the College of Philadelphia and taught William White and a generation of Pennsylvania area clergy, during and after the Revolution he served in Chestertown, Maryland, and organized Washington College and the Episcopal Church in Maryland. I don’t know where the notion that he went ot England for consecration came from.
(2) Samuel Peters was an ecclesiastical adventurer. His election in Vermont relates to claims to some property granted there to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
(3) See Bishop White’s _Memoirs_ for Ogden who was not cofirmed by the General Convention on dubious grounds.