Collection ID: 0035 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Journal of the meetings that led to the formation of the diocese, 1784-1790

Authors

• White, William, 1748-1836 (https://viaf.org/viaf/23313303)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

EpiscopalDiocese.WilliamWhiteJournal
(Philadelphia, United States, Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives)

Alternate identifiers

• https://philadelphiacongregations.org/records/item/EpiscopalDiocese.WilliamWhiteJournal

Publisher

Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Archives

Language

English

Origin

Place

United States

Summary

In 1784, members of the vestry of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's and the vestry of St. Paul's appointed a committee to confer with the clergy of their respective churches, "on the subject of forming a representative Body of the Episcopal Church in this State." They wrote a letter, signed by chairman William White, to all Episcopal churches in Pennsylvania, asking them to send delegates to a meeting at which general principles and a framework of governance would be established. This bound manuscript includes William White's journals documenting the formation of the Diocese of Pennsylvania in 1784, as well as the institution of a convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the state of Pennsylvania, and minutes from the first six such conventions, up to 1790.

Extent

72 pages;

Support

Paper

Related resources

• Philadelphia Congregations Early Records Project (https://philadelphiacongregations.org)
• ATLA Digital Library (https://dl.atla.com/collections/philadelphia-congregations-early-records-project)

Subjects topical

• Episcopalians
• Corporate minutes
• Church meetings
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
• Episcopal Church. Diocese of Pennsylvania
• Christ Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Episcopal Church
• White, William, 1748-1836
• St. Peter's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• St. Paul's Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• United Churches of Christ-Church and St. Peter's (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Genres

• Manuscripts
• Diaries

Keywords

• 18th century

Licenses

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