John Johns
| Right Rev. John Johns, D.D., LL.D. | |
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| Bishop of Virginia | |
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| Church | Episcopal Church |
| See | Virginia |
| In office | 1862–1876 |
| Predecessor | William Meade |
| Successor | Francis McNeece Whittle |
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| Ordination | 1820 by James Kemp |
| Consecration | 1842 by William Meade, Levi Silliman Ives, Alexander Viets Griswold |
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| Born | July 1796 New Castle, Delaware |
| Died | 4 April 1876 (aged 79) Alexandria, Virginia |
| Previous post | Assistant Bishop of Virginia (1842–1862) |
| 15th President of the College of William & Mary |
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In office 1849–1854 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Saunders, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Stoddert Ewell |
John Johns (July 1796 – April 4, 1876) was the fourth Episcopal bishop of Virginia. He led his diocese into secession and during the American Civil War and later tried to heal it through the Reconstruction Era. Johns also served as President of the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg before that war, and led and taught at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria after the war.
Born into a prominent political family in New Castle, Delaware in 1796, John Johns was the son of Chief Justice Kensey Johns. His mother, Ann Van Dyke, was the daughter of Governor Nicholas Van Dyke of Delaware. However, young John Johns was raised at the family's estate in Maryland, the Cliffs in Calvert County, established by his emigrant Quaker ancestor in 1660.
In 1815, Johns graduated from Princeton College in New Jersey and from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1819. On November 20, 1820, he married the first of his three wives, Julianna Jackson, also of Calvert County, and who moved west with her new husband to Frederick County.
Bishop William White ordained Johns to the deaconate of the Episcopal Church in 1819 in Philadelphia. In 1820, Maryland's Bishop James Kemp ordained Johns (then 23) to the priesthood. He served at All Saints Church in Frederick, Maryland for the next eight years.
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