History This Month
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March 1
On this day in 589, David of Wales, bishop and confessor, patron of Wales, died.
March 2
On this day in 1811, John S. B. Monsell, Anglican priest and hymnist, was born in Londonderry, Ireland.
March 2
On this day in 1985, Frank T. Griswold, III, was consecrated as bishop coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago.
March 3
On this day in 1883, Leighton George Hayne, hymnist, died.
March 4
On this day in 1827, Abdul Masih (servant of Christ) died. Abdul Masih adopted this name after his conversion by Anglican missionary Henry Martyn.
March 5
On this day in 1518, Desiderius Erasmus sent a copy of Martin Luther's Ninety-five Theses to Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor of England during Henry VIII's schism with Rome.
March 6
On this day in 1976, John Shelby Spong was elected Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark at a Special Convention.
March 7
On this day 1530, Pope Clement VII rejected Henry VIII's request to divorce Catherine of Aragon.
March 8
On this day in 1698, British missionary Thomas Bray and four laymen founded the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) "to advance the honor of God and the good of mankind by promoting Christian knowledge both at home and in the other parts of the world by the best methods that should offer.
March 9
On this day in 1995, the Committee for a New Dialogue on Sexuality met at General Seminary in New York City.
March 10
On this day in 1748, John Newton, captain of a slave ship, was converted to Christianity during a huge storm at sea. After becoming an Anglican priest, Newton became a zealous abolitionist and wrote the famous hymn "Amazing Grace."
March 11
On this day in 1979, Constancio B. Manguramas, Bishop of Southern Philippines, was installed as Prime Bishop of the Philippine Episcopal Church at the Cathedral of St. Mary.
March 12
On this day in 1685, Anglican bishop and philosopher George
Berkeley was born at his family home, Dysart Castle, near Thomastown, County Kilkenny, Ireland.
March 13
On this day in 1456, Johann Gutenberg first published the Bible on his printing press with movable type.
March 14
On this day in 1981, Henry B. Hucles III was elected suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island.
March 15
On this day in 1672, Charles II of England issued his first declaration of indulgence, suspending Parliament's legislation against Catholic and Protestant dissenters.
March 16
On March 16, 1789, Henry Ustic Onderdonk was born in New York. Onderdonk served as rector of St. Ann's Church in Brooklyn, New York. In 1827, he was consecrated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and served as assistant bishop to the Rt. Rev. William White, the first bishop of the Diocese of Pennsylvania and the first and fourth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church. Onderdonk succeeded White as bishop of Pennsylvania upon White's death in 1836.
March 17
On this day in 1902, George W. Warren, organist and choir director, died. Warren served at St. Peter's Episcopal Church and St. Paul's Church in Albany, New York and Holy Trinity Church and St. Thomas' Church in New York City. No music was played at his funeral, attended by thousands, as the mourners believed they could find no finer organist.
March 18
On this day in 1455, renowned artist Fra Angelico died.
March 18
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On this day in 1789, Charlotte Elliott, English devotional writer, was born in Clapham, England.
March 18
On this day in 1612, Bartholomew Legate, an English merchant known for his anti-Trinitarian theology, was burnt at the stake at Smithfield.
March 19
On this day in 1263, Hugh of St. Cher, a Dominican friar who made the first significant concordance of the Bible, died.
March 19
On this day in 1825, John J. Husband, English-born American music teacher and sacred music chorister, died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Husband taught music in Philadelphia and worked as the clerk at St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
March 20
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On this day in 1885, Christopher Wordsworth, priest and nephew of the English poet William Wordsworth, died in Lincoln, England.
March 20
On this day in 1985, The Anglican Communion was invited to be one of the consultants to the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
March 21
On this day in 1556, after denying earlier forced recantations, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer, author of the Book of Common Prayer, was burned at the stake by Queen Mary. Cranmer immeaditly thrusted his arm into the flames, saying the hand that had signed the recantations should burn first.
March 22
On this day in 1312, Pope Clement V at the Council at Vienna dissolved the military Order of Knights Templar by an administrative ordinance.
March 22
On this day in 337, the first Christian emperor of Rome, Constantine, died at age 47.
March 23
On this day in 1540, Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last monastery in England to surrender its allegiance to the Roman Catholic Church and support King Henry VIII and the emerging Church of England.
March 24
On this day in 1208, Pope Innocent III placed Britain under an interdict after England's King John opposed the Pope's choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. Innocent canceled all religious services until John surrendered. Soon after his surrender, the king signed the Magna Carta, in which the first article affirms "That the Church of England shall be free.."
March 25
On this day in 1980, the Rt. Rev. Robert A.K. Runcie was installed as the 102nd Archbishop of Canterbury.
March 26
On this day in 655, Deusdedit became the sixth and first English-born Archbishop of Canterbury. He served as archbishop until 664.
March 27
On this day in 1991, a royal commission confirmed the election of Dr. George Carey as the 103rd Archbishop of Canterbury.
March 28
On this day in 1998, Chilton Richardson Knudsen was ordained and consecrated the eighth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maine and the eighth female bishop in the Episcopal Church.
March 28
On this day in 1661, the Scottish Parliament passed the Rescissory Act, which repealed all church-state legislation created since 1633. The act restored the Anglican episcopacy to Scotland.
March 30
On this day in 1533, Thomas Cranmer was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. Cranmer granted Henry VIII's annulment ending his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
March 31
On this day in 1999, Bishop Jim Ottley officially left his post as Anglican Observer at the United Nations.
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