Manuel Ferrando

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Manuel Ferrando (1868 - December 12, 1934) was a missionary bishop who served in Puerto Rico. [1] [2] He was ordained as a Catholic priest in his native Spain, where he became superior of a Capuchin monastery. From there he was sent to Latin America as a missionary. In 1902, he broke with Rome and started his own mission called the "Church of Jesus" in Puerto Rico. [3]

Ferrando was consecrated as a bishop in the Reformed Episcopal Church on November 12, 1912. [4]

Ferrando was consecrated as a suffragan bishop in The Episcopal Church in 1923. [5]

References

  1. ↑ "BISHOP FERRANDO DEAD IN HOSPITAL". New York Times . December 13, 1934. p. 23.
  2. ↑ Prichard, Robert W. (2014). A History of the Episcopal Church (Third Revised ed.). Church Publishing. p. 274. ISBN   9780819228772.
  3. ↑ Starr, Martin P. (2003). The Unknown God: W.T. Smith and the Thelemites. The Teitan Press. p. 75. ISBN   9780933429079.
  4. ↑ "Journal of the Proceedings of the fifty-fifth General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church" (PDF). Reformed Episcopal Church . 2017.
  5. ↑ Karen Marshall Booth (September 1, 1973). "THE PUERTO RICO PAPERS, 1870-1952". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church. 42 (3). Historical Society of the Episcopal Church: 341.
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