The Episcopal Handbook, Revised Edition by Tobias Stanislas Haller

Author:Tobias Stanislas Haller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Church Publishing Incorporated
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

TEN IMPORTANT

EPISCOPAL MISSIONARIES

AND WHAT THEY DID

Domestic

Jonathan Myrick Daniels

A seminary student from New England, Daniels was a missionary in the South during the struggle for civil rights. In 1965, Daniels was among those responding to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s call to protest in Alabama, when he was shot outside a grocery store while protecting an African-American teen. His death, at age 26, helped awaken Americans to the seriousness of the civil rights challenge in the United States.

Jackson Kemper

The first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church, Kemper left his native New York to found missions in the Midwest. In 1835, Kemper headed west to found, among other things, a college in St. Louis, Missouri, a seminary in Racine, Wisconsin, and a mission parish in Milwaukee that stands today as the Cathedral Church of All Saints.

Thomas Gallaudet

Known as “missionary to the deaf,” Gallaudet carried on a family tradition. The son of Thomas H. Gallaudet, who helped found the first institution for the education of the deaf in North America, young Thomas founded a church and school for the deaf. One of his students, Henry Winter Syle, became the first deaf person ordained in the Episcopal Church.

David Pendleton Oakerhater

A Native American, Oakerhater was a warrior and leader of the Cheyenne in Oklahoma. Following his capture and conversion to Christianity while incarcerated, Oakerhater became a deacon and then returned to his people. As a missionary to the Cheyenne, Oakerhater founded several schools and missions.

Caroline Louise Darling

It sometimes comes as a surprise to learn that the Episcopal Church has nuns (see the next chapter). Darling is just one of many religious sisters who have served the church. Better known by her religious name, Sister Constance, she and other Sisters of Saint Mary ministered in nineteenth-century Memphis to those stricken by yellow fever. She, her sisters, and other faithful ministers remained to care for the sick and dying during the epidemics, as droves of people were moving out. In 1878, when an epidemic killed more than 5,000 people, Constance, three other nuns, and two priests joined the number of those who perished at their posts. They are remembered today as “The Martyrs of Memphis.”

Foreign

James Holly

Born to freed slaves in Washington, DC, James Theodore Holly was the first African-American ordained as an Episcopal bishop, as a missionary bishop of Haiti. He had served at St. Luke’s in New Haven, Connecticut, where in 1856 he founded the Protestant Episcopal Society for Promoting the Extension of the Church Among Colored People, which eventually became the Union of Black Episcopalians (ube.org).

Channing Moore Williams

How does a poor farm boy grow up to be a bearer of the Gospel halfway round the world? One answer is the Holy Spirit, coupled with willingness to look into your heart. Williams presented himself as a missionary for work in China, where he was ordained in 1857. Soon after he was assigned to Japan, and eventually became Missionary Bishop in China and Japan. He translated much of the BCP into Japanese, and founded a university in Edo (now Tokyo).

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