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328A CHRONOLOGY OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCHBradbury Chandler articulates reasons why an Anglican episcopate should be establishedin the colonies.1775 Anglican layman Patrick Henry delivers his “Give me liberty or give me death”speech at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia.1776 The process of Anglican disestablishment in the American colonies begins.1780 The first use of the name “Protestant Episcopal” occurs at a convention of clergyand laity in Chestertown, Maryland.1782 William White publishes The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United StatesConsidered, which offers crucial ideas about the reorganization of AmericanAnglicanism.1784 Samuel Seabury is consecrated to the episcopate by three bishops of the EpiscopalChurch of Scotland.1787 Charles Inglis is consecrated bishop of Nova Scotia, thus becoming the first bishopof the Church of England to serve in a British colony.1789 General Convention meets in Philadelphia and approves a constitution and prayerbook for the Episcopal Church.1792 Thomas Claggett becomes the first Episcopal bishop consecrated on American soil.1794 St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia becomes not only the firstblack parish of the Episcopal Church but also the first black congregation of anydenomination in the United States.1804 Absalom Jones is ordained as the first African American priest of the EpiscopalChurch.1811 High church leader John Henry Hobart is consecrated as the assistant bishop ofNew York.1815 William Holland Wilmer publishes The Episcopal Manual, one of the earliest statementsof Episcopal evangelical principles.1820 General Convention creates the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of theEpiscopal Church.1835 Jackson Kemper is chosen to be the denomination’s first missionary bishop.1839 The publication of the first American edition of Tracts for the Times, the manifestoof Oxford movement principles, causes an outcry of alarm among evangelicalEpiscopalians.1845 Anne Ayres, founder of the Sisterhood of the Holy Communion, commits to thereligious life.1852 Levi Silliman Ives, the bishop of North Carolina, announces his conversion toRoman Catholicism.1853 William Augustus Muhlenberg, concerned about the need for Episcopalians todemonstrate greater sensitivity to the social and religious challenges of midnineteenthcentury America, presents his “memorial” to the House of Bishops.