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JOHN HENRY HOBART (1775-1830)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HENRY See also:HOBART (1775-1830)  , See also:American See also:Protestant Episcopal See also:bishop, was See also:born in See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 14th of See also:September 1775, being fifth in See also:direct descent from See also:Edmund See also:Hobart, a founder of See also:Hingham, See also:Massachusetts . He was educated at the Philadelphia Latin School, the See also:College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania), and See also:Prince-ton, where he graduated in 1793 . After studying See also:theology under Bishop See also:William See also:White at Philadelphia, he was ordained See also:deacon in 1798, and See also:priest two years later . He was elected assistant bishop of New See also:York, with the right of See also:succession, in 1811, and was acting diocesan from that date because of the See also:ill-See also:health of Bishop See also:Benjamin See also:Moore, whom he formally succeeded on the latter's See also:death in See also:February 1816 . He was one of the founders of the See also:General Theological See also:Seminary, became its See also:professor of See also:pastoral theology in 1821, and as bishop was its See also:governor . In his zeal for the historic See also:episcopacy he published in 1807 An See also:Apology for Apostolic See also:Order and its See also:Advocates, a See also:series of letters to Rev . See also:John M . See also:Mason, who, in The See also:Christian's See also:Magazine, of which he was editor, had attacked the Episcopacy in general and in particular Hobart's Collection of Essays on the Subject of Episcopacy (18o6) . Hobart's zeal for the General Seminary and the General See also:Convention led him to oppose the See also:plan of Philander See also:Chase, bishop of See also:Ohio, for an Episcopal seminary in that See also:diocese; but the Ohio seminary was made directly responsible to the See also:House of Bishops, and Hobart approved the plan . His strong opposition to " dissenting churches " was nowhere so clearly shown as in a pamphlet published in 1816 to dissuade all Episcopalians from joining the American See also:Bible Society, which he thought the Protestant Episcopal See also:Church had not the numerical or the See also:financial strength to See also:control . In 1818, to counterbalance the See also:influence of the Bible Society and especially of See also:Scott's Commentaries, he began to edit with selected notes the See also:Family Bible of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge . He delivered episcopal charges to the See also:clergy of See also:Connecticut and New York entitled The Church-See also:man (1819) and The High Churchman Vindicated (1826), in which he accepted the name " high churchman," and stated and explained his principles " in distinction from the corruptions of the Church of See also:Rome and from the Errors of Certain Protestant Sects." He exerted himself greatly in See also:building up his diocese, attempting to make an See also:annual visit to every See also:parish .

His failing health led him to visit See also:

Europe in 1823–1825 . Upon his return he preached a characteristic See also:sermon entitled The See also:United States of See also:America compared with some See also:European Countries, particularly See also:England (published 1826), in which, although there was some praise for the See also:English church, he so boldly criticized the See also:establishment, See also:state patronage, See also:cabinet See also:appointment of bishops, lax discipline, and the See also:low requirements of theological See also:education, as to rouse much hostility in England, where he had been highly praised for two volumes of Sermons on the See also:Principal Events and Truths of Redemption (1824) . He died at See also:Auburn; New York, on the 12th of September 1830 . He was able, impetuous, See also:frank, perfectly fearless in controversy, a See also:speaker and preacher of much eloquence, a supporter of See also:missions to the See also:Oneida See also:Indians in his diocese, and the compiler of the following devotional See also:works: A See also:Companion for the See also:Altar (1804), Festivals and Fasts (1804), A Companion to the See also:Book of See also:Common See also:Prayer (1805), and A Clergyman's Companion (1805) . See Memorial of Bishop Hobart, containing a Memoir (New York, 1831); John McVickar, The See also:Early See also:Life and Professional Years of Bishop Hobart (New York, 1834), and The Closing Years of Bishop Hobart (New York, 1836) .

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