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Clergyman: Encyclopedia II - James Blair clergyman - Heritage

During the Colonial period, Dr. Blair was instrumental in reviving and reforming the Church of England in Virginia. Dr. Blair's contributions to education in Virginia are recognized not only at the College of William and Mary, but in the naming of various schools, including James Blair Middle School in James City County, Virginia, (formerly James Blair High School) and James Blair Middle School in Norfolk, Virginia. On the William and Mary campus in the city of Williamsburg, a large portrait of Dr. Blair is displayed in the Great Hall. Nearb ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Anglican terminology

The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. A clergyman can be assumed to be in holy orders. The clergy is a term applied widely across many religions, while clergyman has connotations at least of Protestantism: while a priest might be Catholic, Anglo-Catholic or Orthodox Christian. A minister might belong to any Protestant church (not Catholic).

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - W.V. Awdry

The Reverend Wilbert Vere Awdry, OBE, (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997) was a clergyman, railway enthusiast and children's author, best known as the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine. Awdry was born in Romsey, Hampshire in 1911. The son of a clergyman, he was himself ordained to the Anglican priesthood in 1936. In 1938 he married Margaret Wale, and two years later took a parish in King's Norton, Birmingham. The characters that would make Awdry famous, and the first stories featuring them, were invented in 1942 to amuse hi ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - 1146

1146 - Events. Saint Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the Second Crusade at Vezelay, Burgundy First written mention of Bryansk. 1146 - Births. Giraldus Cambrensis, Welsh clergyman and chronicler (approximate date; died c. 1223) William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1219) 1146 - Deaths. August 1 - Vsevolod II of Kiev September 14 - Zengi, ruler of Syria (assassinated) (born 1087)Including:

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Charles Chauncy

Charles Chauncy (November 5, 1592 – February 19, 1672) was an Anglo-American clergyman and educator. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he later was a lecturer in Greek. After serving as a pastor in England and Massachusetts, he was appointed president of Harvard College in 1654. He held that office until his death in 1672. ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Aaron Bancroft

Aaron Bancroft (10 November 1755 - 19 August 1839) was an American clergyman. He was born in Reading, Massachusetts. He began his studies during the American Revolution, and served as a minuteman, and was present, at the battles of both Lexington and Bunker Hill. He graduated from Harvard in 1778 and subsequently taught, studied theology and spent three years as a missionary in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. In 1785 he settled in Worcester as pastor of the Congregational Church, and remained in the same post until his death. During the ...

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Jean-Antoine Nollet

Jean-Antoine Nollet (19 November 1700 – 25 April 1770) was a French clergyman and physicist. As the head of a monastery, he was also known as Abbé Nollet. He was particularly interested in the new science of electricity, which he explored with the help of Du Fay and Réamur. He joined the Royal Society of London in 1734 and later became the first professor of experimental physics at the University of Paris. He is reputed to have given the name to the Ley ...

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Jean-Antoine Nollet - Reference

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - 1416

1416 - Events. May 30 - The Catholic Church burns Jerome of Prague as a heretic. 1416 - Births. March 27 - Antonio Squarcialupi, Italian composer (died 1480) October 26 - Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent (died 1490) Pal Engjëlli, Albanian Catholic clergyman (died 1470) Piero della Francesca, Italian artist (died 1492) Francis of Paola, founder of the Order of the Minims (died 1507) Jacquetta of Luxembourg, daughter o ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - 1639

1639 - Events. January 14 - Connecticut's first constitution, the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted. January 23 - Francisco Maldonado de Silva, Peruvian Jewish poet, executed by burning at the stake March 13 - Harvard University is named for a clergyman named John Harvard. November 24 - Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus. Charles I starts the first of the Bishops Wars against Scotland. The Casiquiare canal, a river forming a natural canal b ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - 1671

1671 - Events. April - Battle of Saraighat. The Ahom general Lachit Borphukan defeated the Mughal forces on the outskirts of present day Guwahati of then soveriegn Assam. May 9 - Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. He is immediately caught because he is too drunk to run with the loot. He would later be condemned to death and then mysteriously pardoned and exiled by King Charles II. June 22 - Ottoman Empire declares war on Pol ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Annie Besant

Annie Wood Besant (Clapham, London October 1, 1847 – India September 20, 1933) was a prominent Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator. Besant was divorced from her clergyman husband Frank Besant, younger brother of Walter Besant, and she had to leave both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism (she was a leading member of the National Secular Society alongside Charles Bradlaugh), birth control, Fabian socialism and wo ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Henry Ward Beecher

Henry Ward Beecher (June 24, 1813 - March 8, 1887) was a theologically liberal American Congregationalist clergyman and reformer, and author who was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, the eighth of nine children of Lyman Beecher by his first wife (and the eighth of thirteen children in all). One of his elder sisters was Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. He attended Boston Latin School, graduated from Amherst College in 1834 and then studied at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. First becoming ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Preacher

Preacher is a colloquial term for a clergyman, in particular a local priest, pastor or Minister; one who preaches. Some believe a preacher is distinct from a theologian by focusing on the communication of the doctrine rather than the development of the doctrine. Others see preaching and theology as being intertwined. Preaching is not limited to religious views, but it extends to moral and social world-views as well. Preachers are common throughout most cultures. They can take the form of a Christian "Reverend" on a Sunday morni ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Barlaam of Calabria

Barlaam of Calabria was an Italian clergyman who converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 14th century. He is one of the representatives of Byzantine Humanism. He brought an accusation of heresy against Gregory Palamas for the latter's hesychast prayer. Three Orthodox Christian synods ruled against him and in Palamas's favor (1341-1351). In contrast to Gregory Palamas's teaching that the "glory of God" revealed in various episodes of Jewish and Christian Scripture (e.g., the Burning Bush seen by Moses) was the uncreated Energies of God,

Clergyman: Encyclopedia - August 19

August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 134 days remaining. August 19 - Events. 293 BC - Oldest known Roman temple to Venus Libitina founded on the Esquiline Hill; institution of Vinalia Rustica begins. 1561 - Queen Mary Stuart returns to Scotland. 1692 - Salem Witch Trials: In Salem, Massachusetts five women and a clergyman are executed after being convicted of witchcraft. 1745 - ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Archbishop of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior clergyman of the established Church of England and symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The present incumbent is Rowan Williams. Today the archbishop fills four main roles: he is the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, which covers the east of the County of Kent and extreme north-east Surrey. Founded in 597, it is the oldest bishopric in the English church. he is the metropolitan of the Province of Canterbury, which covers the southern two- ...

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Clergyman: Encyclopedia - Andrew Young poet

This page is not about the poet Andrew Young (1823 - 1901) Andrew John Young (29 April 1885 - 1971) was a Scottish poet and writer on botanical subjects, and a Presbyterian minister who later became an Anglican clergyman. He was born in Elgin, and educated in Edinburgh, where he went to school, then Edinburgh University and New College for theological training. He was ordained in the United Free Church of Scotland in 1912. Later, in 1920, he moved to Hove in Sussex. He joined the Church of England and became a parish priest as vicar of Stonegate, also in Sussex. He was ...