Official Record of Apostolic Succession of

Henry Ustick Onderdonk 3/16/1789 - 12/6/1858) in Christ Church, Philadelphia, as Assistant Bishop of
Pennsylvania (becoming Diocesan in 1836 upon the death of Bishop William White). He graduated from
Columbia University in 1805 and studied medicine in London and the University of Edinburgh (M.D.). He
studied theology and was ordained Priest in Trinity Church, New York, on 11 April 1816 by Bishop John
Henry Hobart. In 1827 he also received the degree of S.T.D. from Columbia University. Bishop Onderdonk,
assisted by Bishop William White and Bishop Dr. Benjamin T. Onderdonk (Bishop of New York, consecrated
in 1830), consecrated to The Sacred Episcopate on 14 January 1834:
Dr. James Hervey Otey (1/27/1800 - 4/23/1863) in Christ Church, Philadelphia, Penn., as the 1st Bishop of
Tennessee and the 30th Bishop in the PECUSA Succession, with parishes in Arkansas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Florida and Tennessee. He was ordained both Deacon and Priest in Warrenton, North Carolina,
by Bishop John S. Ravenscroft. Together with Louisiana Bishop Leonidas Polk (with whom he earlier
founded Columbia Institute, a school for girls), he laid the groundwork for The University of the South at
Suwanee, Tennessee, and served as the university's first Chancellor. Today a PECUSA parish on University
Avenue in Suwanee bears the good Bishop's name. Bishop Otey, assisted by Bishop Leonidas Polk (1st
Bishop of Louisiana; previously 1st Bishop of Arkansas; consecrated in 1838) and Bishop Nicholas H.
Cobbs (1st Bishop of Alabama, consecrated in 1844), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 24 February
1850:
Dr. William Mercer Green (5/2/1798 - 2/13/1887) in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Jackson, Mississippi,
as the 1st Bishop of Mississippi. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1818 (studying
theology) and was ordained a Deacon on 29 April 1821 by Bishop Richard C. Moore of Virginia in Christ
Church, Raleigh, North Carolina. He was ordained a Priest on 20 April 1822 by the same bishop in St.
James' Church, Wilmington, North Carolina. In 1845 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from the
University of Pennsylvania. He served as Fourth Chancellor of The University of the South at Suwanee,
Tennessee, beginning in 1867. Bishop Green, assisted by Bishop Joseph W. B. Wilmer (2nd Bishop of
Louisiana; consecrated in 1866) and Bishop John W. Beckwith (2nd Bishop of Georgia; consecrated in
consecrated in 1868), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 17 January 1875:
William Forbes Adams (1/2/1833 - 1920) in St. Paul's Church, New Orleans, as Missionary Bishop of New
Mexico & Arizona, becoming the 2nd Bishop of Easton (Maryland) in 1887. He was ordained a Deacon on
15 December 1859 and a Priest in St. Andrew's Church, Jackson, Mississippi, on 29 July 1861 by Bishop
William Mercer Green. Bishop Adams, assisted by Bishop Alfred M. Randolph of Southern Virginia
(consecrated in 1883) and Bishop Dr. William Paret of Maryland (consecrated on 1/8/1885), consecrated to
the Sacred Episcopate on The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels (29 September), 1909:
John Gardner Murray (8/31/1857 - 10/3/29) as Coadjutor Bishop of Maryland, becoming Diocesan in 1911
(to 1929) and the first elected Presiding Bishop of PECUSA on 1 January 1926. Presiding Bishop John G.
Murray, assisted by Bishop John McKim (1st Bishop of North Kwanto, consecrated in 1893) and Bishop
Henry St. G. Tucker (consecrated in 1912 by Bp. John McKim, Bishop Norman Henry Tubbs of Rangoon in
Burma and Bishop Arthur Lea of Kyushu, Japan) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 3 December
1928:
Norman Spencer Binsted (1890 - 1961), as Missionary Bishop of Tohoku, The Central Philippines, for The
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Bishop Binsted, acting for the Presiding
Bishop of PECUSA (Henry Knox Sherril), assisted by Bishop Robert Franklin Wilner (Suffragan Bishop of
the Missionary District of the Philippines) and Bishop Harry Sherbourne Kennedy (Bishop of the Missionary
District of Honolulu, Hawaii), consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 7 April 1948:
Isabelo de los Reyes, Jr (1900 - 1971) as Obispo Maximo of the Iglesia Filipina Independiente (being
elected to this office in 1946). Obispo Maximo de los Reyes, assisted by Bishop Manuel N. Aguilar and
Bishop Alejandro Remollino (Iglesia Filipina Independiente) consecrated to the Sacred Episcopate on 22
September 1957: