From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horatio Potter
Horatio Potter
Scotland. During his career he traveled to Britain several
times.
On March 8, 1864 Bishop Potter laid the cornerstone
for the Church of the Incarnation located at 205-209
Madison Avenue.
In 1865 Bishop Potter created the Sisterhood of St.
Mary now called the Community of St. Mary; in doing
so, he was the first bishop in the Anglican community to
constitute a new monastic order in over two centuries.
In 1868 his diocese was divided, the new dioceses of
Albany, Central New York and Long Island being separat-
ed from it. Bishop Potter attended the Lambeth Confer-
ences of 1867 and 1868. His failing health put an end to
his active service in 1883, when his nephew, Alonzo Pot-
ter’s son the Rt Revd Henry, became his assistant.
Horatio Potter conceived and founded the Cathedral
of St. John the Divine in New York City, the largest cathe-
dral in the Western Hemisphere, though he did not live
to see the foundation stone laid. He died in New York
City on 2 January 1887 and his body is entombed in a
large gothic tomb behind the high altar of the cathedral.
The cathedral was constructed under the guidance of his
nephew, the Rt Revd Henry, who succeeded Horatio as
Bishop of New York.
References
Horatio Potter • The Episcopal Church Annual. Morehouse Publishing:
New York, NY (2005).
The Right Reverend Horatio Potter (1802–1887), was Ten Decades of Praise; The Story of the Community of
an Episcopal Bishop in the Diocese of New York. Saint Mary during Its First Century, by Sister Mary Hi-
The youngest brother of Bishop Alonzo Potter, he was lary, CSM, Racine, WI: The DeKoven Foundation for
born near Beekman (now La Grange), Dutchess County, Church Work, 1965. Chapter 3, Genesis.
New York on 9 February 1802, to Quaker farmers Joseph Sermon: The Light of the World, by Horatio Potter
and Anne Potter. He graduated at Union College in 1826, This article incorporates text from a publication
was ordained priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911).
1828, was rector for several months in Saco, Maine, and Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University
from 1828 to 1833 was professor of mathematics and nat- Press.
ural philosophy at Washington College (now Trinity Col-
lege), Hartford, Connecticut.
From 1833 to 1854 he was rector of St. Peter’s Church,
Note
Albany, New York. In November 1854 he was elected H. Potter Dormitory at Bard College is named after Bish-
provincial bishop of New York in place of Benjamin op Potter.
Treadwell Onderdonk (1791–1861), who had been sus-
pended after a scandal, and upon Onderdonk’s death he External links
became Diocesan bishop.
He was married first to Mary Jane Tomlinson, who • Documents by Horatio Potter from Project
died in 1847 leaving six children. In 1853 he married Canterbury
Mary Atchison Pollock whom he had met on a tour of • alonzopotter.com
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Horatio Potter
Name Potter, Horatio Place of birth
Alternative names Date of death 1887
Short description Place of death
Date of birth 1802
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