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Abraham Jarvis (May 5, 1739 – May 3, 1813) was the second
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of the
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and eighth in succession of bishops in the Episcopal Church. He was a high churchman and a loyalist to the crown.


Biography

Jarvis was born in
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and graduated from
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in 1761. He studied under the Rev. Thomas Bradbury Chandler, rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Elizabeth, N.J. He was ordained
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on February 5, 1764, and priest on February 19, 1764, by the
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. He served as rector of Christ Church,
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, from 1764 to 1799. Jarvis served as a chaplain to imprisoned Loyalist sympathizers during the
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. He presided at a convention in
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, of clergy of Connecticut on July 23, 1776, which decided to suspend worship in the colony for fear of the British. He was one of ten Episcopal priests who met in
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, on March 25, 1783, and elected
Samuel Seabury Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut. He was a leading Loyalis ...
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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until 1803 and finally in New Haven, where he died. His remains are interred under the high altar at
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. Jarvis Hall, the oldest dormitory at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, is named after Abraham Jarvis. The Living Church Annual, 1944, pgs, 376-377


Consecrators

* The Right Reverend William White (second in succession), first presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and first
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* The Right Reverend Samuel Provoost, (third in succession), third presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church and first
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* The Right Reverend Edward Bass (seventh in succession), first
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of
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Publications

* "Sermon on the Death of Bishop Seabury", 1796


See also

*
Succession of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States This list consists of the bishops in The Episcopal Church, an independent province of the Anglican Communion. This shows the historical succession of the episcopate within this church. Key to chart The number references the sequence of consecrat ...


Notes and references


Historical material by and about Jarvis
from
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