Reformed Anglicans

12 September 1830 A.D. John Henry Hobart Dies—3 rd Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Diocese of NY; Founder of General Seminary, NYC John H. Hobart From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Henry Hobart John Henry Hobart (September 14, 1775 – September 12, 1830) was the third Episcopal bishop of New York (1816–1830). He vigorously promoted the extension of the Episcopal Church in Central and Western New York. He founded the General Theological Seminary in New York City and Geneva College , later renamed Hobart Free College in 1852 after him, in Geneva , in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York. Contents   ·                   1 Biography o                  1.1 Early life and family o                  1.2 Ed...

  12 September 1830 A.D. John Henry Hobart Dies—3 rd Bishop of Protestant Episcopal Diocese of NY; Founder of General Seminary, NYC Editors. “John Henry Hobart.” Encyclopedia Britannica. N.d. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/268441/John-Henry-Hobart . Accessed 17 Feb 2015. John Henry Hobart John Henry Hobart,   (born Sept. 14, 1775,  Philadelphia —died Sept. 12, 1830,  Auburn , N.Y., U.S.), U.S. educator, publisher, author, and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church whose emphasis upon the discipline of orthodoxy during the inchoate post-Revolutionary period in American history—when all things English were suspect—helped Anglicanism to expand in a new nation without compromising its traditions. In 1806 in New York City Hobart founded the Protestant Episcopal Theological Society (later the General Theological Seminary), where in 1821 he became professor of pastoral theology and homiletics. Renowned as a preacher, he opposed fr...