Leighton Coleman

Leighton Coleman (May 3, 1837 - December 14, 1907) was an American clergyman of the Episcopal Church.

The Right Reverend

Leighton Coleman

S.T.D., D.D., LL.D.
Bishop of Delaware
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseDelaware
ElectedJune 6, 1888
In office1888-1907
PredecessorAlfred Lee
SuccessorFrederick Joseph Kinsman
Orders
OrdinationMay 15, 1862
by Horatio Potter
ConsecrationOctober 18, 1888
by Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe
Personal details
Born(1837-05-03)May 3, 1837
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
DiedDecember 14, 1907(1907-12-14) (aged 70)
Wilmington, Delaware. United States
BuriedDu Pont de Nemours Cemetery in Wilmington, Delaware
NationalityAmerican
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJohn Coleman & Margaretta Thomas
SpouseFrances Elizabeth DuPont

Biography

He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and graduated at the General Theological Seminary (New York City) in 1861. he was ordained deacon on July 1, 1860. From 1860 until 1862, he served as a missionary on Randalls and Wards Islands in New York. He was ordained priest on May 15, 1862.

He served his religion in a variety of positions and at different places. He was rector of churches in Bustleton, Pa., Wilmington, Del., Mauch Chunk, Pa., Toledo, Ohio, and Sayre, Pa. He lived in England from 1879 to 1887.

Bishop Coleman was Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge of Masons of Pennsylvania and prelate of the Knights Templar, Chaplain General of the Society of the War of 1812, Chaplain of the Delaware Society of the Cincinnati, and Vice President of the Delaware Historical Society. He was elected a thirty-third degree Mason by the Consistory in Boston in September 1907.[1]

Publications authored
  • A History of the Lehigh Valley (1872)
  • The Church in America (1895)
  • A History of the Church in the United States (1901, in the "Oxford Church Text Series")
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See also
  • Raphael Morgan (Robert Josias Morgan, who was ordained to the Episcopal Deaconate by Bp. Coleman).

References
  1. The New York Times. Bishop Coleman of Delaware Dies. Sunday December 15, 1907. Page 13.

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