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Also known as Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue or Saint Thomas Church in the City of New York, the parish was incorporated on January 9, 1824. The current structure, the congregation's fourth church, was designed by the architects Ralph Adams Cram and Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue in the French High Gothic Revival style and completed in 1914. [ 2 ]
Dietsche was consecrated at the cathedral on March 10, 2012, and formally installed as the 16th Bishop of New York on February 2, 2013. He was succeeded in 2024 by the Rt. Rev. Matthew Heyd . He was appointed Officer of the Order of St John (OStJ), in September 2017.
Peter Williams Jr. (1786–1840) was an African-American Episcopal priest, the second ordained in the United States and the first to serve in New York City. He was an abolitionist who also supported free black emigration to Haiti, the black republic that had achieved independence in 1804 in the Caribbean.
On 29 January 1995, he was made an honorary canon of the Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, by Richard F. Grein, Bishop of New York. [3] [2] Andrew retired in 1996 and returned for a time to England. [2] He later returned to New York and was appointed Rector Emeritus of St Thomas' Church in 1999. [3]
Hugh R. Page (b. 1956), Episcopal priest and scholar at Notre Dame University; Austin Pardue (1899–1981), bishop of Pittsburgh; Leighton Parks (1852–1938), Episcopal priest; Henry N. Parsley, Jr. (born 1948), bishop of Alabama; Samuel Penny (1808–1853), Episcopal priest; ZeBarney Thorne Phillips (1875–1942), Episcopal priest and ...
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William Thomas Manning (May 12, 1866 – November 18, 1949) was a U.S. Episcopal bishop of New York City (1921–1946). He led a major $10 million campaign to raise funds for additional construction on the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, and directed a program to train and employ men from the neighborhood as skilled artisans during the Great Depression and later.
William Levington (1793 – May 15, 1836) was an African-American clergyman and teacher. The third African American ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States, he established the first African-American congregation south of the Mason–Dixon line, and worked to educate African American youth.