Henry Bond Restarick (December 26, 1854 – December 8, 1933) was the first American bishop of the

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Biography

He was born in Somerset, England, the son of Edwin Restarick and Amelia Riall Webb. He was educated at King James Collegiate School in

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, England, after which, in 1872, he emigrated to the

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. he worked as a farm hand and then a country school teacher, before studying at Griswold College in

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, from where he graduated with a

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in 1882. He was ordained deacon in 1881 and priest in 1882. In 1881, he was appointed curate of Trinity Church in

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, while in 1882, he became rector of St Paul's Church in

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, where he remained till 1902. He was elected Bishop of Hawaii on April 17, 1902, and was consecrated on July 2, 1902 by the Bishop of California

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. He resigned on October 27, 1920. He was also editor of the ''Hawaiian Church Chronicle'', trustee and president of the Hawaiian Historical Society, and president of the Library of Hawaii, a post which he held from 1927 to 1931.

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1854 births 1933 deaths 20th-century Anglican bishops in the United States Episcopal bishops of Hawaii People from Somerset English emigrants to the United States {{US-Anglican-bishop-stub