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 | | Absalom Jones, with the aid of Quakers and Episcopalians, erected the African Church. | | | Jones was ordained priest in 1802, yet he and his parishioners were not permitted to participate in Diocesan life. | | | Jones was an activist in areas important to his congregation and to other Blacks. |
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http://www.diowestmo.org/AbsalomJones2004.htm
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| | Absalom Jones was ordained a deacon, and then, a priest in the Episcopal Church in 1802. | | | This week in the calendar of the Episcopal Church, we celebrate the feast day of Absalom Jones, remembered for his courage, his faith, and his perseverance. | | | After Absalom Jones and the other men left the church that Sunday, they worked through the Free African Society to form a non-denominational church. |
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http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/ePubs/cArticle.asp?article=639&comesFrom=sn
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| | Worship That Works |
| | Although Absalom Jones preferred to remain a Methodist, a majority of the membership was so disaffected with Methodism because of their treatment at St. George's that they voted to conform to the polity and worship of the Episcopal Church. | | | Nonetheless, it can be said that for more than 20 years, Absalom Jones faithfully served the people of St. Thomas as a keeper of the charge by being among them as a faithful prophet, priest and pastor. | | | Absalom Jones became a licensed lay preacher at St. George's along with his life-long friend, Richard Allen, who is credited with founding America's first African American denomination in 1816, The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). |
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http://www.er-d.org/6087_27569_ENG_HTM.htm
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| | Jones believed that the church was not only a place of worship and religious education but also for general education, mutual aid and protest. | | | Jones remained as the leader of the new Protestant Episcopal-affiliated church. | | | Still, Jones’ congregation faced exclusion: the Diocese instructed them not to send delegates to the Convention or to take part in the general government of the Episcopalian Church. |
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| | Free Culture |
| | When a group of worshippers, including Absalom Jones, were forcibly evacuated from a Methodist church during prayer, the group formed their own church. | | | Absalom Jones, the first man to be evacuated from the Methodist church, set up his own Episcopalian Church. | | | However, the Episcopalian Church proper refused to recognize Jones' church or to admit blacks into its church. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/DIASPORA/FREE.HTM
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| | Absalom Jones died in 1818 as a man of conviction and moral heroic leader who not only preached the word of God, but also practiced his beliefs. | | | In 1804, Jones was ordained by Bishop William White as the first African Episcopal priest. | | | The African church became known as The African Episcopal Church of St. |
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http://astro.temple.edu/~stewartd/absalomjones.html
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| | Absalom Jones Icon by Lu Bro |
| | Absalom Jones demonstrated persistent faith in God and in his Church as God’s instrument. | | | The church grew rapidly and Jones was ordained as deacon and later as priest. | | | He preached that, “God acts on behalf of the oppressed....” In this icon, Jones, surrounded by symbols of oppression, cradles a decorated Bible with his left hand and holds his right hand in blessing. |
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http://www.bridgebuilding.com/narr/lbabj.html
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| | Festival Eucharist at Council on Sunday |
| | Absalom Jones was the leader of a group that affiliated with the Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1786 after their original church, St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church split their congregation and required all blacks to sit in the balcony. | | | Bishop White also agreed that, after a period of study, Jones would be ordained and serve as rector - he was ordained deacon in 1795 and priest in 1802. | | | The Festival Eucharist on Sunday at the 113th Annual Council of the Diocese of Southern Virginia will also be the Diocese's annual celebration of the faith and ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones, the first African American ordained in any denomination in the United States. |
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http://www.southernvirginia.anglican.org/cross/jan05/acounf.htm
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| | African American Registry: Absalom Jones, a force in Black spirituality |
| | Known as “the black Bishop of the Episcopal Church,” Jones was an example of persistent faith in God an in the Church as God’s instrument. | | | He denounced slavery, and warned the oppressors to “clean their hands of slaves.” To him, God was the Father who always acted on “behalf of the oppressed and distressed.” But it was his constant visiting and mild manner that made him beloved by his own congregation and by the community. | | | African American Registry: Absalom Jones, a force in Black spirituality |
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http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1870/Absalom_Jones_a_force_in_Black_spirituality
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| | Absalom Jones -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | Jones was later ordained as the first African-American (A clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders) priest in the Episcopal Church in the USA. | | | Absalom Jones (1746 - February 13, 1818), was an (additional info and facts about African American) African American (A reformer who favors abolishing slavery) abolitionist and (A member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church) clergyman. | | | He later founded St. Thomas African Church in Philadelphia, which petitioned to become an (additional info and facts about Episcopal) Episcopal parish. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/a/ab/absalom_jones.htm
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| | To this same end, St. Thomas African Episcopal Church stipulated that their incorporation into the Diocese would entail recognition of Absalom Jones as the leader of the congregation, and on this basis he was ordained as the first black priest of the Episcopal Church in 1802. | | | In Absalom Jones's day, the main affront to the gospel was slavery. | | | His wise leadership in their struggle to be free from the cruel institution of slavery is, after all, one of the main things that makes him so heroic. |
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| | George F. Bragg (George Freeman), 1863-1940. Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, by the Rev. George F. Bragg, in Honor of ... |
| | Jones replied: "Wait until prayer is over, and I will get up and trouble you no more." With that he beckoned to one of the other trustees, Mr. | | | It was not at all strange that the Church of Allen should have had such a wonderful and remarkable growth, in the face of the superior advantages afforded by St. Thomas' Church. | | | Whatever the African Methodist Church is today, and whatever it shall be, its progress, much or little, can only rightly be estimated from the depths from which it issued, with the guiding hand of a black fellow sufferers, raised up out of the dust, and from among the most lowly of his brethren. |
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http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/bragg1915/bragg1915.html
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| | JS Online: Episcopalians honor 1st black priest in U.S. |
| | In 1794, the church asked for and was given membership in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania. | | | Episcopalians honor 1st black priest in U.S. Church accepted Jones, who defied segregation in Methodist parish | | | They helped increase the black membership of the parish so much that church leaders became alarmed. |
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http://www.jsonline.com/lifestyle/religion/feb04/207421.asp?format=print
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| | Welcome to 4th District - African Methodist Espicopal Church |
| | When the prayer was over, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen and many others left the church and started a journey that ultimately ended in the establishment of the African Methodist Espiscopal Church. | | | When asked to remove himself to an old section of the church reserved for blacks only, Absalom Jones replied, "Wait unitl the prayer is over, and I will get up and trouble you no more." These words were spoken by Absalom Jones more than 200 years ago to the Trustees from St. George's Methodist Church. | | | Wait until the prayer is over, and I will get up and trouble you no more |
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http://www.fourthdistrictame.org
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| | The Black Experience within the Episcopal Church |
| | Jones preached a message of liberation, that God was the Father who always acted on "behalf of the oppressed and distressed," and he denounced slavery. | | | Because Allen was committed to the principles of Methodism, he left St. Thomas to form the Bethel African Church. | | | During its first year, the church grew to 500 members. |
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http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/blackexperience.html
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| | Worship That Works |
| | Blessed Absalom, pray that we may be the church at Christ's behest. | | | One fine morning, while at worship, wrested from his knees in prayer, He, his friends, were thus evicted: "You no more may praise God here." Blessed Absalom, pray that we may Stand steadfast and persevere. | | | Founded He (the) Saint Thomas' Church for African sons and daughters blessed; full-fledged members of Christ's Body, they no longer were oppressed. |
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http://www.er-d.org/6087_8224_ENG_HTM.htm
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| | Windy City Times |
| | Jones became rector of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas, the first African-American congregation of the Episcopal Church. | | | Moving north, Ann Sather’s restaurant was the location for a panel discussion with leaders from five religious traditions: Metropolitan Community Church, Buddhist, Catholic, Jewish and Methodist. | | | Starting on the South Side at St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church, the Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, gave a sermon of welcomeness and inclusion for the more than 300 people helping mark the 200th anniversary of the ordination of the Episcopal Church’s first African-American priest, Rev. Absalom Jones. |
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http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=3987
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| | July 30: James Varick consecrated |
| | Heritage of African-American Religion From Boston's African Meeting House (1804), to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s, this is the dramatic story of the African-American church in America. | | | He was a family man, too, having married Aurelia Jones who bore him seven children, four of whom survived to adulthood. | | | Their vision personified the courage and community that combined African spirituality with the Christian message of liberation. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/07/daily-07-30-2003.shtml
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| | One day Jones was on his knees praying at the front of the church a white man came up to him and told him that he needed to move to the back of the church so white people can see. | | | In 1787 Jones and Allen led black members of the church in a walkout protesting a church policy that made blacks sit at the back of the church. | | | Jones founded St. Tomas African Episcopal Church, the first Episcopal Church for blacks in the United States. |
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| | Christ Church Cathedral |
| | Absalom Jones (1746-1818) was the first African-American priest to be ordained in the Episcopal Church in America. | | | Situated at 125 Monument Circle, historic Christ Church Cathedral is a congregation of the Episcopal Church, the American branch of Anglican Communion of churches descended from the Church of England. | | | This year's celebration, in the form of a Eucharist, is co-sponsored by the Diocesan Racial Reconciliation Work Group and Christ Church Cathedral, and features a commissioned jazz setting of the Mass by the Grammy Award-nominated and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musician. |
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| | My home parish, St. Anthony on the Desert of Scottsdale, celebrates the Feast of Absalom Jones (found in Lesser Feasts and Fasts) on or shortly after February 13 each year. | | | She was about to reveal some important information to me. I astutely responded to her question with a question, "Mrs. | | | She replied, "Reverend Lester told us so at Church Sunday." Mrs. |
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| | Transcript of Bishop V. Gene Robinson's sermon |
| | "Moved, perhaps, even more to be invited here as we celebrate the ordination, 200 years plus, the ordination of Absalom Jones, the first African-American priest ordained in the Episcopal church. | | | What an honor it is--a white boy like me from Kentucky--being asked to come here and talk about this great saint up in the window there, Absalom Jones. | | | "The Old Testament reading for the celebration of Absalom Jones is from Isaiah the 61st chapter. |
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http://www.suntimes.com/includes/cst-nws-esermon09.html
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| | Dismantling Racism |
| | The lives of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, the first persons of color ordained by the Episcopal Church, will be celebrated with "Moving Forward Faithfully -- Becoming a Truly Inclusive, Open, and Affirming Church" on Feb. 11 from 9:30 a.m. | | | It is requested that each congregation send a minimum of two people to be participants of the gospel choir. | | | The first major performance for the gospel choir will be held in February 2006 in honor and recognition of Absalom Jones' Day in the |
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http://www.missouri.anglican.org/racism.htm
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| | Stewardship of the James Dexter Site: Considerations |
| | Along with the need to fashion a form of religious expression that addressed the values and experience of the group's members, there was also a desire to escape the indignities and injustice at the hands of a white religious hierarchy with congregations which were, at best, patronizing and often hostile. | | | Richard Allen and his followers founded what became known as Mother Bethel Church, the founding congregation of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | Absalom Jones led a group that founded and built the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas. |
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http://www.nps.gov/inde/archeology/dexter2.htm
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| | African American Journey: Jones, Absalom |
| | One group, led by Jones, formed the St. Thomas African Episcopal Church. | | | Allen and the other group formed the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. | | | Absalom Jones was a leader of the struggle to give black Americans control over their religious worship. |
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http://www.worldbook.com/features/aajourney/html/bh034.html
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| | February 1999 East Range Epistle |
| | To him, God was the Father, who acted on "behalf of the oppressed and distressed." But it was his constant visiting and mild manner that made him beloved by the members of his church and community. | | | His active ministry in the church led to his ordination as deacon in 1795 and priest in 1802. | | | Jones is remembered for his preaching and his denouncements of slavery. |
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http://www.speravi.com/church/9902.htm
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| | The Atlanta chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) warmly invites everyone to participate in this festival Eucharist commemorating the first African American priest of the Episcopal Church, Absalom Jones, born a house slave in Delaware in 1746 and ordained priest in Philadelphia in 1802. | | | For the first time in years, the annual diocesan celebration of the feast of Absalom Jones will occur on the actual anniversary day of his death, February 13 (1818). | | | This year's service features the Rev. Canon Alonzo C. Pruitt as preacher. |
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http://www.stphilipscathedral.org/absalom.htm
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| | Allen wanted the group to remain Methodist, and in 1793 he left to form a Methodist congregation. | | | In 1816 he left the Methodists to form a new denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME). | | | Jones (ordained deacon and priest in 1795 and 1802) and Allen (ordained deacon and elder in 1799 and 1816) were the first two black Americans to receive formal ordination in any denomination. |
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| | Absalom Jones - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Jones was later ordained as the first African-American priest in the Episcopal Church in the USA. | | | Thomas African Church in Philadelphia, which petitioned to become an Episcopal parish. | | | Absalom Jones was also part of the first group of African-Americans to petition the U.S. Congress. |
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| | African Methodist Episcopal |
| | The white congregation there was directly opposed to black assemblies; and accordingly, as before, they restricted the gatherings and also segregated worship service. | | | When the time came for the group to decide on a religious affiliation, they cast a vote. | | | Richard Allen and Absalom Jones backed Methodism, but the rest (due to an understandable disillusionment with that denomination) preferred Episcopalianism. |
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http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/ame.html
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| | Diamonds of Delaware and Maryland's Eastern Shore: Seven Black Men of Distinction |
| | Their refusal to accept second-class status in the church ultimately led to the founding of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) in 1794. | | | Allen became the first bishop of the AME branch of Methodism. | | | A brief description of each leader is presented: Absalom Jones (1746-1818), a Delaware native from Sussex County who distinguished himself as a religious, civic, and community leader; Reverend Peter Spencer (1782-1843), father of the Black Independent Church Movement in Delaware; Abraham D. |
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| | Calvary The Chronicle |
| | Bible Study for Everyday Living with the Rev. Mimsy Jones: enjoy and learn from an in-depth study of one of the books of the Bible, and/or ponder the routine implications of the readings coming up next Sunday, in a class with a favorite Bible-study leader at Calvary. | | | This tribute is being given to recognize Mimsy's dedicated service to the ministries of Calvary Church. | | | To view the pictures of Augustus and Absalom Jones, visit the second floor of Calvary Church, across from the elevator. |
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http://www.calvaryjc.org/chron_021300.html
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| | Around the Diocese . . . from the Weekly News |
| | And finally, “God had to be with the people of the Diocese of Pennsylvania to open their eyes to the needs of the African people.” | | | God bless us as we follow Absalom in our steadfast love of God and for one another.” | | | But she spoke of calls to others as well, calls to those who helped Absalom Jones in his journey. |
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| | Chicago Diocese -- Absalom Jones Day Celebration |
| | The observance honors the Rev. Absalom Jones, the first African American ordained priest in the Episcopal Church (1802) and co-founder with Richard Allen of the Free African Society, the first Afro-American organization in the United States. | | | Fulton Porter, assistant at St. Edmund's, Chicago, will be the keynote speaker at the annual Absalom Jones Day Celebration sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians. |
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http://www.epischicago.org/ViewEvent.cfm?EventID=1106
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| | Holy Apostles Philadelphia - Outreach Ministries |
| | Absalom Jones was the first African-American ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. | | | This fund was created to support African American Divinity students. | | | Please contact us for more information and to sign up. |
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http://www.hamphilly.org/about/outreach.html
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| | Africans in America/Part 3/Portrait of Absalom Jones |
| | The half-length portrait shows Jones in his ecclesiastical robes, with Bible in hand. | | | The most widely recognized image of the Reverend Absalom Jones, completed sometime prior to the winter of 1810, displays a dignity rarely allowed African subjects in 19th century art. | | | The senior Peale was pleased to discover that his son had "painted a Portrait in oil of Absalom Jones a very excellent picture of the Rev'd. |
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h85.html
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| | Jones was the first African American priest in the Protestant Episcopal Church. | | | He was active as a lay reader at Philadelphia’s St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, until the numbers of blacks that he helped bring into the church alarmed the white vestry, who decided to segregate the black members into a second-story gallery. | | | These ideas, derived from the basic documents of the founding of this nation, would continue to be used throughout the 19th and 20th centuries as hallmarks of the struggle to end slavery and establish citizenship for African Americans. |
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http://chnm.gmu.edu/fairfaxtah/documents/absalomjones.doc
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| | Jones, Januarius: A fellow of Latin in a small college, and a fat, satyr-like man who literally pursued several women attempting to seduce them in Soldiers' Pay. | | | In 1869 she gave birth to a daughter fathered by Thomas Sutpen, who spurned her when he discovered the child was not a boy. | | | According to rumor, she ended up in a brothel in Memphis, where she died. |
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http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/glossaryj.html
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| | The Providence Forum |
| | A quiet man, Jones was dedicated to his Christian faith, and became a lay preacher at St. George’s Methodist Episcopalian Church in Philadelphia. | | | After leaving St. George’s because of racial issues in 1794, Jones founded St. Thomas African Episcopalian church with the permission of the Pennsylvania Bishop. | | | And in meekness and fear, we would desire to walk in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free." |
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| | March 2004: Absalom Jones |
| | Acolytles from four churches took part in the service, which was sponsored by the Washington Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians. | | | "Just as Absalom responded to the needs of his people in his time, it is up to us to respond to the needs in our time. | | | Jones, the first black American to be formally ordained as an Episcopal priest, was born into slavery and was able to buy his freedom at age 38. |
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| | Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, William Gray and William Wilcher were appointed to find a lot to build a church where the worship of God could be carried on without interference. | | | When the prayer was over, the black people, led by Richard Allen and Absalom Jones, withdrew from the St. George's Church | | | As he raised his head, he saw the trustees pulling Absalom Jones and William White off their knees telling them that they could not kneel there. |
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| | St. Mary's Liturgical Minutes |
| | The Church calendar honors Absalom Jones on February 13, his death date in 1818. | | | He was reared a domestic slave in Delaware and saved enough in tips to purchase a primer, a spelling book and a New Testament. |
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| | Episcopal News Service |
| | These events commemorate the life and ministry of Absalom Jones, the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church. | | | As Rector of St. James in Baltimore, Maryland, Bishop Curry launched a $2.5 million restoration of the church building after a fire. | | | Absalom Jones was born a house slave in Delaware in 1746. |
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| | Vignettes: Ministers Richard Allen and Absalom Jones |
| | The establishment of separate regional churches and the organization of African American churches in the North helped consolidate northern opposition to slavery. | | | Jones, meanwhile, attacked slavery from his pulpit at St. Thomas African Episcopal Church. | | | Though unsuccessful, Jones argued, "In the Constitution and in the Fugitive Slave bill, no mention is made of Black people or slaves, therefore if the Bill of Rights…[is] of any validity, we beseech that as we are men, we may be admitted to partake of the Liberties [sic] and unalienable rights therein held forth." |
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| | Religion and the New Republic (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress Exhibition) |
| | Emotional exuberance was characteristic of evangelical religion in both the white and black communities in the first half of the nineteenth century. | | | A year later Jones was ordained as the first black Episcopal priest in the United States. | | | In this receipt, Absalom Jones acknowledges receiving from Samuel Wetherill, a leader of the Free Quakers of Philadelphia, a donation of $186, collected from members of the House and Senate, to assist in promoting the mission of Jones's "St. Thomases African Church in Philadelphia." |
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel07.html
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| | Absalom Jones Student Center |
| | The ministry is named for the first African American priest of the Episcopal Church, Absalom Jones (1746-1818). | | | Absalom Jones Student Center is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta at Atlanta University Center, the world's largest consortium of historically black colleges and universities. | | | Since 1958, "AJC" has offered worship, fellowship and discussion for the community. |
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http://atlanta.anglican.org/PARISHES/absjones.htm
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| | Africans in America: WHYY |
| | Shortly afterwards, the terrible yellow fever epidemic struck Philadelphia. | | | Absalom Jones became head of the St. Thomas' Episcopal Church, and frequently preached against slavery. | | | Although Allen later withdrew from the Society, he supported Jones' plan for building the black community's first church. |
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| | Absalom Jones (Canterbury) Student Center |
| | Since opening, it has been an active place for debate, discussion and worship. | | | Jones was an impressive teacher and pastor and an important figure in the history of the Episcopal Church. | | | The center was founded in 1958 and is named for the former slave and first African-American Episcopal priest, Absalom Jones (pictured on left). |
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