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Spence Burton

Cincinati, 1881 - 1966

BiographySon of Casper Henry Burton and Byrd Waithman Spence. Attended Harvard College and received bachelor of arts degree in 1903, masters of arts in 1904. Then spent two years at General Theological Seminary in New York City. Returned to Boston in 1907 and became postulant in the society of St. John the Evangelist. In 1908, Burton was ordained the left the states for Oxford, England to study with the Crowley Fathers. Four years later, Burton returned to Boston in 1912 to work at St. John's mission house at 33 Bowdoin Street.
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Spence Burton SSJE[1] was an Anglican bishop in the mid 20th century and the first American to be consecrated a bishop in the Church of England.[2]
Born on 4 October 1890 and educated at Harvard University, he was ordained in 1908.[3] After a short spell as an assistant priest at St John the Evangelist, Boston he was to spend the next 30 years with the Society of St. John the Evangelist[4] eventually becoming Father Superior of the American Congregation. In 1939, he was appointed Suffragan Bishop of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Three years later, he was translated to Nassau,[5] finally resigning in 1962.[6] He died on 15 February 1966. A college he founded during his episcopate recently celebrated its 60th anniversary.[7]
He was a bishop associate of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spence_Burton

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