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Charles Edward Cheney (February 12, 1836 – November 15, 1916) was an American clergyman and second
bishop A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of Episcopal polity, authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Christianity, bishops are normally responsible for the governance and administration of di ...
of the
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.


Life

Charles E. Cheney was born in
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on February 12, 1836. A graduate of Hobart College in
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, he studied at
Virginia Theological Seminary Virginia Theological Seminary (VTS), formally the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary in Virginia, is an Episcopal Church (United States), Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Virginia. It is the largest and second-oldest such accredited se ...
before ordination to the diaconate and priesthood by William Heathcote DeLancey in 1858 and 1859 respectively. Soon after his ordination he became rector of Christ Church,
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, where he served from 1860 until his death in 1916. Cheney's opposition to the
baptismal regeneration Baptismal regeneration is the name given to doctrines held by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican churches, and other Protestant denominations which maintain that salvation is intimately linked to the act of bapti ...
of infants resulted in ecclesiastical censure by Bishop Henry J. Whitehouse of Chicago. Cheney was consecrated bishop by George David Cummins at Christ Church, Chicago, Illinois, on December 14, 1873. He succeeded Cummins as Presiding Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church, serving in this capacity from 1876–1877 and 1887–1889.


See also

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List of bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church These are the bishops consecrated in the Reformed Episcopal Church from its founding in 1873 to the present, along with the bishops consecrated in the Free Church of England from REC episcopal succession. See also * List of bishops of the Ang ...


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External links


The Reformed Episcopal Church
1874 sermon by Cheney

1875 sermon by Cheney

sermon by Cummins at Cheney's consecration

People from Canandaigua, New York 1836 births 1916 deaths Presiding Bishops of the Reformed Episcopal Church {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub