Henry Champlin Lay
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| Successor | Adams |
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| Ordination | July 12, 1848 |
| Consecration | October 23, 1859 |
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| Born | December 6, 1823 Richmond, Virginia |
| Died | September 17, 1885 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Buried | Easton, Maryland |
| Nationality | American |
| Spouse | Eliza Withers Atkinson |
| Children | 4 |
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Henry Champlin Lay D.D.,L.L.D. (senior; December 6, 1823 – September 17, 1885) was a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Born to Lucy Anna May of Petersburg, Virginia and her husband, Richmond merchant John Olmstead Lay, Henry Champlin Lay was baptized in historic St. John's Church although his parents were members of the city's Monument Church parish. His mother died when Henry was 10, and his father six years later. Lay attended the Richmond Academy run by Socrates Maupin. He then entered the University of Virginia on September 1, 1839 (before reaching his sixteenth birthday) and graduated with a Master of Arts degree on July 4, 1842. Lay then tutored the children of General William H. Broadnax at Kingston in Dinwiddie County for nearly two years.
Realizing that he had a call to ministry, Lay began theological studies at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia on October 12, 1844, taking the first and second year courses simultaneously. He graduated in due course and on July 10, 1846 was ordained deacon by William Meade and assigned to the historic Lynnhaven parish near Virginia Beach, which also operated a free school pursuant to the bequest of its rector who had died as the American Revolution began.
The following spring, after marrying as discussed below, Lay moved to Huntsville, Alabama to serve as rector of the Church of the Nativity. Nicholas H. Cobbs ordained Lay a priest on July 12, 1848. During his eleven-year leadership, the sixty member congregation built a brick church, still standing, which could seat 600. Lay was chosen as a deputy to the General Convention in 1850 and 1859. Between those terms, in 1857, he received a Doctor of Divinity D.D. degree from Hobart College in New York.
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