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Theodore B. Lyman

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The Right Reverend

Theodore Benedict Lyman

D.D., L.L.D., D.C.L.
Bishop of North Carolina
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseNorth Carolina
In office1881–1893
PredecessorThomas Atkinson
SuccessorJoseph Blount Cheshire
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of North Carolina (1873-1881)
Orders
OrdinationDecember 19, 1841
by William R. Whittingham
ConsecrationDecember 11, 1873
by William R. Whittingham
Personal details
Born(1815-11-27)November 27, 1815
DiedDecember 13, 1893(1893-12-13) (aged 78)
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
BuriedHistoric Oakwood Cemetery
Church of the Good Shepherd after 1914
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsAsa Lyman & Mary Benedict
SpouseAnna Margaret Albert (m. 1845, d. 1889)
Susannah Boone Robertson (m. 1889, d. 1893)
Children6

Theodore Benedict Lyman (November 27, 1815 – December 13, 1893), was the fourth Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.[1]

Biography

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He was born in Brighton, Massachusetts on November 27, 1815.[2] He was the father of William Whittingham Lyman.[3] He was educated at Hamilton College and General Theological Seminary. He was ordained deacon on September 20, 1840, and priest on December 19, 1841, for the Diocese of Maryland and served as rector of Saint John's Church at Hagerstown, Maryland. In 1850 he moved to Pittsburgh. He spent some time traveling around Europe and the Middle East He also served as chaplain at the Embassy of the United States, Rome. He returned to the United States in 1870 became rector of Trinity Church in San Francisco. Lyman [2] was one of the founders of Saint James School in Maryland, which became one of the great Church schools in the United States and from which schools such as St. Paul's, Concord NH, St. Mark's, Southborough, and others were founded. He was elected Coadjutor Bishop of North Carolina bishop in 1973.[4] He was consecrated on December 11, 1873, by Bishop Thomas Atkinson of North Carolina in Christ Church, Raleigh, North Carolina. After his death at age seventy-eight, he was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh; in 1914 he was reinterred under the altar of the newly completed sanctuary of the Church of the Good Shepherd which had been planned to serve as the new cathedral.

References

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  1. ^ "Previous Bishops". The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. Archived from the original on April 11, 2017. Retrieved April 11, 2017.
  2. ^ a b public domain Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Lyman, Theodore Benedict". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. p. 62.
  3. ^ "W. W. Lyman". Napa County Biographies. The CAGenWeb Project. 1891. Archived from the original on March 25, 2005. Retrieved April 13, 2005.
  4. ^ The Living Church 1944, pgs. 378-379
  • The Episcopal Church Annual. New York, NY: Morehouse Publishing. 2005.[page needed]
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Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by 4th Bishop of North Carolina
1881–1893
Succeeded by