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Abraham Jarvis

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as the first bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving as secretary of the meeting. Jarvis was consecrated second bishop of Connecticut on October 18, 1797. Completing his service in Middletown in 1799, he then served in
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Jarvis Hall, the oldest dormitory at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is named after Abraham Jarvis.
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until 1803 and finally in New Haven, where he died. His remains are interred under the high altar at
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Jarvis served as a chaplain to imprisoned Loyalist sympathizers during the
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in 1761. He studied under the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, rector of
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Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States
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on February 5, 1764, and priest on February 19, 1764, by the
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Bishop of Connecticut

Episcopal Church
Connecticut
Samuel Seabury
Thomas Church Brownell
Charles Lyttelton
William White
Norwalk
Connecticut Colony
New Haven, Connecticut
United States
Trinity Church on the Green
American
Anglican
Abraham Jarvis's signature
American
Episcopal
bishop
Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut
succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church
Norwalk, Connecticut
Yale College
St. John's Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N.J.
deacon
Church of England
Middletown, Connecticut
American Revolution
New Haven, Connecticut
Woodbury, Connecticut

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