Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (bishop)
| Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe | |
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| 1st Bishop of Central Pennsylvania | |
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| Church | Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America |
| Diocese | Central Pennsylvania |
| In office | 1871-1895 |
| Successor | Nelson S. Rulison |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1832 |
| Consecration | 5 October 1789 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 5, 1808 Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Died | July 31, 1895 Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Previous post | Rector of St. Luke's Church, Philadelphia, PA |
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe (also Anthony, DeWolf, De Wolf, and DeWolfe; 1808–1895) was an Episcopal priest and later first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, USA.
Mark Antony De Wolfe Howe was born Mark Antony De Wolf Howe 5 April 1808, in Bristol, Rhode Island. (As an adult, he changed the spelling of his second middle name to De Wolfe.) He was the son of John and Louisa (Smith) Howe, and a descendant of James Howe, an English immigrant to Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1637. Maternally, he was connected to Richard Smith, the first town clerk of Bristol, Rhode Island from the 1680s. He was also related to Senator James De Wolf.
He attended Phillips Academy, Andover, and Middlebury College in Vermont. He left Middlebury to pursue education at Brown University, his father's alma mater. He graduated from Brown in 1828, having becoming friends with Francis Wayland, a president of Brown.
He taught Latin at Brown, as well as in the public schools of Boston. At the same time he studied law at his father's law office. Howe studied religion under John Bristed (son-in-law of John Jacob Astor and father of Charles Astor Bristed).
He was the recipient of several honorary degrees, including a LL.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1876.
In 1832, Howe was ordained deacon by Alexander V. Griswold, bishop of the Eastern Diocese, at Saint Matthew's Episcopal Church, South Boston.
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