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MEADE, WILLIAM (1789-1862)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MEADE, See also:WILLIAM (1789-1862) , See also:American See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop, the son of See also:Richard Kidder Meade (1746–1805), one of See also:General See also:Washington's aides during the See also:War of See also:Independence, was See also:born on the 11th of See also:November 1789, near Millwood, in that See also:part of See also:Frederick See also:county which is now See also:Clarke county, See also:Virginia. He graduated as valedictorian in 18o8 at the See also:college of New See also:Jersey (See also:Princeton); studied See also:theology under the Rev. See also:Walter See also:Addison of See also:Maryland, and in Princeton; was ordained See also:deacon in 1811 and See also:priest in 1814; and preached both in the See also:Stone See also:Chapel, Millwood, and in See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Alexandria, for some See also:time. He became assistant bishop of Virginia in 1829; was pastor of Christ Church, See also:Norfolk, in 1834–1836; in 1841 became bishop of Virginia; and in 1842–1862 was See also:president of the Protestant Episcopal Theological See also:Seminary in Virginia, near Alexandria, delivering an See also:annual course of lectures on See also:pastoral theology. In 1819 he had acted as the See also:agent of the American Colonization Society to See also:purchase slaves, illegally brought into See also:Georgia, which had become the See also:property of that See also:state and were sold publicly at See also:Milledgeville. He had been prominent in the See also:work of the See also:Education Society, which was organized in 1818 to advance funds to needy students for the See also:ministry of the American Episcopal Church, and in the See also:establishment of the Theological Seminary near Alexandria, as he was afterwards in the work of the American See also:Tract Society, and the See also:Bible Society. He was a founder and president of the Evangelical Knowledge Society(1847), which, opposing what it considered the heterodoxy of. many of the books published by the See also:Sunday School See also:Union, attempted to displace them by issuing See also:works of a more evangelical type. A See also:low Churchman, he strongly opposed Tractarianism. He was active in the See also:case against Bishop See also:Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1789–1858) of See also:Pennsylvania, who because of intemperance was forced to resign and was suspended from the ministry in 1844; in that against Bishop See also:Benjamin Tredwell Onderdonk (1791–1861) of New See also:York, who in 1845 was suspended from the ministry on the See also:charge of See also:intoxication and improper conduct; and in that against Bishop G. W. See also:Doane of New Jersey. He fought against the threatening See also:secession of Virginia, but acquiesced in the decision of the state and became presiding bishop of the See also:Southern Church.

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Richmond, Virginia, on the 14th of See also:March 1862. Among his publications, besides many sermons, were A Brief See also:Review of the Episcopal Church in Virginia (1845); See also:Wilberforce, See also:Cranmer, See also:Jewett and the See also:Prayer See also:Book on the Incarnation (185o); Reasons for Loving the Episcopal Church (1852) ; and Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia (1857) ; a storehouse of material on the ecclesiastical See also:history of the state. See the See also:Life by See also:John Johns (See also:Baltimore, 1867).

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