Samuel Parker (bishop of Massachusetts)
The Right Reverend Samuel Parker D.D. | |
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Bishop of Massachusetts | |
Church | Episcopal Church |
Diocese | Massachusetts |
Elected | 1804 |
In office | 1804 |
Predecessor | Edward Bass |
Successor | Alexander Viets Griswold |
Orders | |
Ordination | February 27, 1774 by Richard Terrick |
Consecration | September 14, 1804 by William White |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Died | December 6, 1804 Boston, Massachusetts, United States | (aged 60)
Nationality | American |
Denomination | Anglican |
Parents | William Parker Elizabeth Parker |
Spouse | Anne Parker |
Children | 15 |
Occupation | Episcopal bishop |
Alma mater | Harvard |
Samuel Parker (August 17, 1744 – December 6, 1804) was an American Episcopal Bishop. He was the second
bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts
.
Education and Ordination
Parker was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the son of William Parker, a lawyer and judge during the American Revolution.[1] He graduated from Harvard University in 1764, and taught for several years.
After being offered a job as assistant rector of
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
.
In 1803, Parker was unanimously elected second bishop of Massachusetts. He was consecrated September 14, 1804, in
Trinity Church, New York, but developed gout
and never served in the post. He died in Boston on December 6, 1804.
Consecrators
- Presiding Bishop
- Thomas John Claggett, 1st bishop of Maryland
- Abraham Jarvis, 2nd bishop of Connecticut
Parker was the
Episcopal Church
.
Publications
- Annual Election Sermon before the Legislature of Massachusetts (1793)
- Sermon for the Benefit of the Boston Female Asylum (1803)
Family life
Parker's sons included Suffolk County district attorney Samuel Dunn Parker, acting Mayor of Boston William Parker, businessman John Rowe Parker, and educator Richard Green Parker.[2]
References
- ^ Sprague, William Buell (1859). Annals of the American Pulpit: Episcopalian. 1859. Robert Carter & Brothers. p. 296.
- ^ Mayor, Boston (Mass. ). (1894). Address of Alderman Parker to the City Council of Boston January 23, 1845. Retrieved July 26, 2019.
Further reading
- Sprague, William Buell.: Annals of the American Pulpit: Or, Commemorative Notices of Distinguished American Clergymen of Various Denominations, from the Early Settlement of the Country to the Close of the Year Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-five Pages 296–298, (1859).
- The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.