Bishop John Henry Hopkins

1792 - 1868  (75 years)

• Name	Bishop John Henry Hopkins  [1]
  Alternate birth	22 Jan 1792	Dublin, Ireland   [2]
  Birth	30 Jan 1792	Dublin, Ireland   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate death	9 Jan 1868	Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont   [2, 3]
  Death	10 Jan 1868	Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont   [6]
  Burial	Rock Point Cemetery, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont   [3]
  Person ID	I22966	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	27 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Thomas Hopkins
  Mother	Elizabeth Fitzakerly,   b. Abt 1774   d. 10 Aug 1833, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	Apr 1791  [5]
  Family ID	F13849	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Melusina Müller,   b. 15 May 1795, Hamburg, Germany d. 26 Aug 1884, Burlington, Chittenden, Vermont (Age 89 years)
  Marriage	8 May 1816	Harmony, Butler, Pennsylvania   [5, 7]
  Children	+ 1. Charlotte Emily Hopkins,   b. 4 May 1817, Ligonier, Westmoreland, Pennsylvania d. 23 Sep 1856, St. Albans, Franklin, Vermont (Age 39 years)
  Family ID	F13830	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	25 Jan 2019

  
  

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• Notes

  First bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont; eighth Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in America. Also an artist, lawyer, ironmonger, musician, and architect--he is said to have introduced Gothic architecture to the United States. He was also an accomplished racist. "He was born in Dublin, Ireland, and came to the United States in 1800. Educated privately, he began work in 1813 as a superintendent of ironworks near Pittsburgh. Although not yet ordained, he was called in 1823 as rector of Calvary Church, Pittsburgh, where he was temporary organist. He was ordained deacon on Dec. 14, 1823, and priest on May 12, 1824. Hopkins became assistant minister at Trinity Church, Boston, in 1831, and was elected the first Bishop of Vermont. He served as bishop from his consecration on Oct. 31, 1832, until his death. He served as Presiding Bishop from Jan. 13, 1865, until he died. Hopkins was a prolific writer and controversialist. In Slavery: Its Religious Sanction (1851) he argued that slavery had a divine warrant. After the Civil War, Hopkins as Presiding Bishop welcomed the return of the southern dioceses and helped to end the division that was caused by the war. The Law of Ritualism (1866) was influential in the eventual acceptance in most Episcopal parishes of such liturgical customs as eucharistic vestments and altar candles. He died in Burlington." [www.episcopalchurch.org]

  
  

• Sources

  [S2959] Arthur Wilmot Ackerman and Harold Clark Durrell, "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 83:330, Jul 1929. [S2970] John Henry Hopkins III, "John Henry Hopkins, First Bishop of Vermont." Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 6:187, June 1937. [S2968] Find a Grave page for Rev John Henry Hopkins. [S2967] "Marriages and Deaths." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22:354, July 1868., year and place only. [S2969] The Life of the Late Right Reverend John Henry Hopkins, First Bishop of Vermont, and Seventh Presiding Bishop by John Henry Hopkins, Jr. New York: F. J. Huntington and Co., 1873. [S2967] "Marriages and Deaths." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22:354, July 1868. [S2968] Find a Grave page for Rev John Henry Hopkins., date only.