George Washington Doane
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The Right Reverend George Washington Doane |
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| Bishop of New Jersey | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| See | Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey |
| In office | 1832 — 1859 |
| Predecessor | John Croes |
| Successor | William Henry Odenheimer |
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| Ordination | 1823 |
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May 27, 1799 Trenton, New Jersey |
| Previous post | Rector, Trinity Church, Boston |
George Washington Doane (May 27, 1799 – April 27, 1859) was a United States churchman, educator, and bishop in the Episcopal Church for the Diocese of New Jersey.
Doane was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He graduated from Union College, Schenectady, New York, in 1818, studied theology and, in 1821, was ordained deacon and in 1823 priest by Bishop Hobart, whom he assisted in Trinity church, New York.
With George Upfold (1796–1872), Bishop of Indiana from 1849 to 1872, Doane founded St. Luke's in New York City. From 1824–1828 he was professor of belles-lettres in Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Connecticut, and at this time he was one of the editors of the Episcopal Watchman. He was assistant in 1828-1830 and rector in 1830-1832 of Christ Church, Boston.
Doane was bishop of New Jersey from October 1832 to his death at Burlington, New Jersey.
The diocese of New Jersey was an unpromising field, but he took up his work there with characteristic vigour, especially in the foundation of St. Mary's Hall (now Doane Academy) (1837, for girls), and Burlington College (1846) as demonstrations of his theory of education under church control. His business management of these schools got him heavily into debt, and in the autumn of 1852 a charge of lax administration came before a court of bishops, who dismissed it.
The schools showed him an able and wise disciplinarian, and his patriotic orations and sermons prove him a speaker of great power. He belonged to the High Church party and was a brilliant controversialist. He published 'Songs by the Way' (1824), a volume of poems; and his hymns beginning "Softly now the light of day" and "Thou art the Way" are well known.
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