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Nathaniel Bowen (June 29, 1779 – August 25, 1839) was the third
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in the
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Biography

Nathaniel Bowen was born in
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, son of the Rev. Penuel Bowen. The family moved to
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when Nathaniel was young and his father died soon after. Nathaniel was raised by the Rev. Robert Smith, who became first bishop of South Carolina. Bowen was married in 1805 to Margaret Blake and they had 10 children, only four of whom survived him. Bowen graduated from the
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in 1794; was ordained deacon on June 3, 1800, and priest in October 1802. He served as rector of St. John's Church,
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, St. Michael's Church,
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and Grace Church,
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. In 1814 he received a doctor of divinity from the
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. He was consecrated bishop of South Carolina on October 8, 1818, serving until his death in Charleston on August 25, 1839.


Consecrators

* The Most Reverend William White, 4th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church * The Right Reverend
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, 3rd
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* The Right Reverend James Kemp, 2nd
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Nathaniel Bowen was the 17th
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consecrated for the Episcopal Church.


See also

* List of Bishop Succession in the Episcopal Church * St. Stephen's Episcopal Church (Charleston, South Carolina), where Nathaniel Bowen presided over the ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone.


References

* ''The Episcopal Church Annual''. Morehouse Publishing: New York, NY (2005).
''Annals of the American Pulpit''
William Buell Sprague (Robert Carter & Bros., Cambridge, Mass., 1859), pp. 471–77


External links


Web site of the Episcopal Church

Web site of the Diocese of South Carolina
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