Home › T19 Categories › * Anglican - Episcopal › The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch looks back to 1817””Episcopal priest Philander Chase Comes to Preach
T19 Access
Search
Categories Main
Categories Exhaustive
T19 Resources
T19 Access
Search
Categories Main
Categories Exhaustive
T19 Resources
The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch looks back to 1817””Episcopal priest Philander Chase Comes to Preach
On May 3, 1817, he conducted the first…[Episcopal] service in Columbus at the Buckeye House hotel.
Four days later, he preached again at the High Street home of storekeeper Lincoln Goodale. “Some of those who came were merely curious. Others believed that God’s inerrant providence brought them to that spot. All listened with reverence as Chase intoned the service from the Book of Common Prayer and preached to them,” Lisa M. Klein wrote in her 2003 history of Trinity Episcopal Church, Be It Remembered.
Read it all.