Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and San Pedro de Macoris of the Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana. Records

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Episcopal Diocese of Haiti and San Pedro de Macoris of the Iglesia Episcopal Dominicana. Records

• 1897-1898 (Creation)

.15 cu.ft. (1 envelope)

The Episcopal Church in the Dominican Republic began as a mission for English speaking residents when Benjamin Isaac Wilson, a self-taught priest, founded the Church of the Holy Trinity at San Pedro de Macoris. It operated under the Episcopal jurisdiction of the independent Haitian Orthodox Apostolic Church until 1913, when the church in Haiti, faced with collapse, was received into The Episcopal Church in the United States as a missionary district. The Episcopal Bishop of the Missionary District of Puerto Rico, the Rt. Rev. Charles Blayney Colmore, assumed responsibility for the Dominican mission. In 1928, jurisdiction over the Dominican church was transferred to the Bishop of the Missionary Diocese of Haiti. Though a Missionary District of the Dominican Republic was formed by General Convention in 1940, the Bishop of Haiti continued as Bishop-in-Charge, under the direction of the Presiding Bishop, until 1959, when the first Bishop of the Dominican Republic, Bishop Paul A. Kellogg, was elected.

This record group consists of seven hand-written documents which record the founding of the Dominican Episcopal Church in 1897, and the ordination of its leader, Benjamin I. Wilson, in 1898, under the aegis of the Haitian Orthodox Apostolic Church. Other historic documents, typescripts, and photographs represent the genesis and development of the Dominican Episcopal Church. Included are a “Covenant of Understanding” signed by Wilson and Bishop James Holly of the Haitian Church, and a testimonial in French signed by Monsieur A. Battiste, Chancellor of the Haitian Church. Also noteworthy are the Articles of Government of the Church of the Holy Trinity, a one-page document signed by representatives of the Church.

Arranged chronologically

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• English

• Governance
• Haitian Orthodox Apostolic Church
• Missionary District of the Dominican Republic
• Missionary Diocese of Haiti
• Missionary District of Puerto Rico
• Missions

• Haiti
• Dominican Republic
• Puerto Rico

• Battiste, Monsieur A. (Subject)
• Colmore, Charles Blayney (Subject)
• Holly, James (Subject)
• Kellogg, Paul A. (Subject)
• Wheaton, Phillip E. (Subject)
• Wilson, Benjamin Isaac (Subject)

• Photographs