Richard Upjohn was a British-American architect who emigrated to the United States and became most famous for his Gothic Revival churches. He was partially responsible for launching the movement to popularity in the United States. Upjohn also did extensive work in and helped to popularize the Italianate style. He was a founder and the first president of the American Institute of Architects. His son, Richard Michell Upjohn, (1828-1903), was also a well-known architect and served as a partner in his continued architectural firm in New York.
Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright I was a provisional Episcopal bishop in Manhattan, New York City.
Jackson Kemper in 1835 became the first missionary bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Especially known for his work with Native American peoples, he also founded parishes in what in his youth was considered the Northwest Territory and later became known as the "Old Northwest", hence one appellation as bishop of the "Whole Northwest". Bishop Kemper founded Nashotah House and Racine College in Wisconsin, and from 1859 until his death served as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Wisconsin.
Arthur Cleveland Coxe was the second Episcopal bishop of Western New York. He used Cleveland as his given name and is often referred to as A. Cleveland Coxe.
William Croswell Doane was the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany in the United States. He was bishop from 1869 until his death in 1913.
Evan Malbone Johnson was a clergyman of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Born in Bristol, Rhode Island, he was ordained to the deaconate and priesthood by Bishop Alexander Viets Griswold. Often referred to as "Dominie" Johnson, he built Saint John's Church at 139 St Johns Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York in 1826, and served that parish for 21 years as its rector without pay. Saint John's Church was consecrated on July 10, 1827, by Bishop John Henry Hobart. In 1847 Johnson established Saint Michael's Church, also in Brooklyn. He served that parish until his death. He was a prolific writer in the cautious pre-ritualist High Church school of Anglicanism. Johnson baptized William Edmond Armitage, later second Bishop of Wisconsin (1870-1873).
James Kemp was the second bishop of the Diocese of Maryland, US, from 1816 to 1827.
William Heathcote DeLancey was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and the sixth Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. DeLancey was known as a High Churchman, and served as the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York. He was elected a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and then as the ninth provost of the university.
William Paret was the 137th bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America and was a bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
St. John's Episcopal Church is an episcopal church in Canandaigua, New York. It was built in 1872.
St. James’ Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church located at 2423 SW Bascom Norris Drive in Lake City, Florida, United States. The church is in the Episcopal Diocese of Florida.
The Church of St John the Evangelist is a Scottish Episcopal church in the centre of Edinburgh, Scotland. It is sited at the west end of Princes Street at its junction with Lothian Road, and is protected as a category A listed building.
Samuel Bowman was an American suffragan Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania, United States.
The Van Rensselaer family is a family of Dutch descent that was prominent during the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries in the area now known as the state of New York. Members of this family played a critical role in the formation of the United States and served as leaders in business, politics and society.
George De Normandie Gillespie was the first bishop of Western Michigan in The Episcopal Church.
George William Davenport was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Easton, serving from 1920 to 1938.
Edward Floyd DeLancey was an American lawyer, author, and historian.
DeLancey Divinity School was a seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America located in Geneva, New York, and Buffalo. It was founded in 1850 by William Heathcote DeLancey (1797-1865), first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Western New York as a diocesan seminary at Geneva. The Rev. Dr. William Dexter Wilson (1816-1900) was its first warden, and it operated until 1858. On February 1, 1861, Bishop DeLancey opened a new diocesan school at Geneva under the direction of the Rev. James Rankine (1827-1896). In 1866, it was renamed the DeLancey Divinity School in memory of the founding bishop. DeLancey acquired the library of St. Andrew's Divinity School (Syracuse) in 1906. In 1920 it moved from Geneva to Buffalo. It was closed in 1935 by Bishop Cameron J. Davis.
