Paul Wattson,
SA (born Lewis Thomas Wattson; January 16, 1863 – February 8, 1940), was an American priest who co-founded the
Society of the Atonement
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with
Mother Lurana White, and the
Christian Unity Octave in
The Episcopal Church
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. He was later received into the
Catholic Church
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and is remembered as an advocate for
ecumenism
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.
Wattson was ordained an
Episcopal
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*Of or relating to a bishop, an overseer in the Christian church
*Episcopate, the see of a bishop – a diocese
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priest in 1886.
He converted to
Catholicism
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in 1909, and was ordained a
Catholic priest
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in 1910.
Wattson has been named a
Servant of God
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Terminology
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.
References
External links
Digital files on Wattson's ministry as an Episcopalianfrom the
Episcopal Diocese of New York
The Episcopal Diocese of New York is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, encompassing three New York City boroughs and seven New York state counties.
1863 births
1940 deaths
American Servants of God
Converts to Roman Catholicism from Anglicanism
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