Joseph Richey
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| Born | October 5, 1843 Northern Ireland |
| Died | September 21, 1877 Marylebone, London |
| Venerated in | Episcopal Diocese of Maryland |
| Feast | September 23 |
Joseph Richey (October 5, 1843 – September 21, 1877) was an Anglo-Irish priest of Episcopal Church in the United States. He was known for his work among the African-American community of Baltimore and for his high church Anglicanism. His feast day, September 23, is included in the Lesser Feasts and Fasts of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland.
Joseph Richey was born in the city of Newry, County Down, in Northern Ireland., although other sources give Belfast as his place of birth. He emigrated with members of his family to the United States when he was ten years old, originally staying in Butler, Pennsylvania. Richey eventually decided to become an Anglican priest, and so at age 16 he headed to Baltimore, where his older brother Thomas Richey, who would eventually go on to become the second president of Bard College, was then serving as rector of Mount Calvary Church. Joseph obtained his bachelor of arts degree from Trinity College (Connecticut), where at commencement exercises he addressed his fellow students, the graduating class of 1866, on the topic of "The Vicissitudes of a Nation's Literature". From there, Richey attended the General Theological Seminary in New York.
Richey was ordained as a deacon on May 23, 1869, at the Church of the Transfiguration in New York by Bishop Horatio Potter and on September 17 of that year was received into the Episcopal Diocese of Albany. Richey was ordained priest on December 18, 1869 by William Croswell Doane, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany, and a day later was installed as rector of the congregation that is now St. John's Church Complex (Delhi, New York) in that diocese. Bishop Doane later described Richey as “the best theologian he knew”. Soon after, Richey became one of the clergy of the Church of the Advent in Boston, of which the rector, Charles Chapman Grafton, was a co-founder of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, a high-church Anglican religious order also known as the Cowley Fathers.
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