. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . t-ed to publish an ad-dress to the Episco-palians throughoutthe State, invitingtheir interest andcooperation in theChurchs Ravenscroftcontinued upwards of seventy on Sunday, July 26, L829,andonthe fol-lowing Tuesday twenty more, in Christ Church. Lexington,and on the29th of November Bishop Brownell confirmed thirty-four in the sameplace, and on the 13th of December thirty-one in (Ihrist Church. Louis-ville. At the time of the admission of the diocese of Kentucky intounion with the General Convention the number of parishes
. The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . t-ed to publish an ad-dress to the Episco-palians throughoutthe State, invitingtheir interest andcooperation in theChurchs Ravenscroftcontinued upwards of seventy on Sunday, July 26, L829,andonthe fol-lowing Tuesday twenty more, in Christ Church. Lexington,and on the29th of November Bishop Brownell confirmed thirty-four in the sameplace, and on the 13th of December thirty-one in (Ihrist Church. Louis-ville. At the time of the admission of the diocese of Kentucky intounion with the General Convention the number of parishes was three,and the number of clergymen four. The following year Bishop Virginia, visited Kentucky, continuing eight in Lexington onthe May, twenty-five in Trinity Church, Danville, on the 5th of June, andtwenty-one in Louisville on the 12th of the same month. The followingyear the diocese of Kentucky welcomed to its borders its first bishop,the Rt. Rev. Benjamin Bosworth Smith, , the late presid-ing bishop of the American RT, REV. JOHN b. RAVENSCROFT, ).. BISHOPOK NORTH CAROLINA. 1 The Rev. Dr. Chapmau, the Rev. JohnWard, and tin- 0. Peers, Deacon. From the Spirit of Missions,xm., p. 98. 202 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL CHURCH. In Tennessee the first clergyman of the Church was subsequentlyits first bishop, the apostolic James Hervey Otey. Born at the footof the Peaks of Otter, in Bedford county, Virginia, on the 27th ofJanuary, 1803 ; brought to the knowledge of Christ and his churchby reading the Book of Common Prayer ; baptized just before reachinghis majority by the Rev. William Mercer Green, now Bishop ofMississippi; a graduate of the University of North Carolina;ordained deacon by Bishop Ravenscroft on the 16th of October,1825, and priest on the 27th of June, 1827,—he had gone, onleaving college, to Tennessee as a teacher, and the revelation ofthe spiritual destitution of the land led him, on his ordination, toret
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