Theodore Benedict Lyman (November 27, 1815 – December 13, 1893), was the fourth

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of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina.

Biography

He was born in

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on November 27, 1815. He was the father of

William Whittingham Lyman William Whittingham Lyman (born July 28, 1850, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – 1921) was the son of Theodore Benedict Lyman. He built the Lyman winery, now known as the El Molino winery. At one point Lyman owned the property of what is now t ...

. He was educated at

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and

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. He was ordained deacon on September 20, 1840, and priest on December 19, 1841, for the

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and served as rector of Saint John's Church at

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. In 1850 he moved to

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. He spent some time traveling around Europe and the Middle East He also served as chaplain at the Embassy of the United States, Rome. He returned to the United States in 1870 became rector of Trinity Church in

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. Lyman was one of the founders of Saint James School in Maryland, which became one of the great Church schools in the United States and from which schools such as St. Paul's, Concord NH, St. Mark's, Southborough, and others were founded. He was elected Coadjutor Bishop of North Carolina bishop in 1973. The Living Church 1944, pgs. 378-379 He was consecrated on December 11, 1873, by Bishop Thomas Atkinson of North Carolina in Christ Church,

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. After his death at age seventy-eight, he was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh; in 1914 he was reinterred under the altar of the newly completed sanctuary of the Church of the Good Shepherd which had been planned to serve as the new cathedral.

References

External links

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