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Samuel Provoost (March 11, 1742 – September 6, 1815) was an American Clergyman. He was the first Chaplain of the United States Senate and the first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, as well as the third Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA.
The Rev. Samuel Provoost, born Feb. 26, 1742, was very briefly the second President of the House of Deputies, and shortly thereafter, the first Bishop of New York. Provoost was born in New York City and studied at King’s College (Columbia) and Cambridge.
22. Apr. 2024 · Samuel Provoost (born March 11, 1742, New York City, New York [U.S.]—died September 6, 1815) was a North American colonial and later U.S. clergyman, the first Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York.
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Provoost, Samuel. (Feb. 26, 1742-Sept. 6, 1815). First Bishop of New York. He was born in New York City and graduated from King's College (Columbia) in 1758. Later he studied at St. Peter's College, Cambridge. He was ordained deacon on Feb. 3, 1766, and priest on Mar. 25, 1766.
Samuel Provoost. 1742-1815. A Sermon Preached in St. George's Chapel, in the City of New York, on Sunday, July 15, 1787, being the Day on Which the First Ordination Was Held by the Right Revd. Doctor Samuel Provost.
Bischof Provoost Samuel Provoost, 1. Bischof von New York und 3. Presiding Bishop der Episcopal Church. Die Wahl von Provoost als Bischof diente auch dazu, gegen die anti-anglikanische Stimmung, die aus politischen Gründen während der Revolution entstanden war, zu wirken.
SAMUEL PROVOOST was a descendant of William Provoost, of a Huguenot family, who made his escape from France at the time of the massacre of St. Bartholomew, and came to New York, then New Amsterdam, in the year 1634.
