Samuel Seabury (bishop)

The Most Reverend Samuel Seabury
2nd Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

Church	Episcopal Church
In office	1789–1792
Predecessor	William White
Successor	Samuel Provoost
Orders
Ordination	1753
Consecration	November 14, 1784
Personal details
Born	November 30, 1729 Groton, Connecticut (originally North Groton - now within the town of Ledyard)
Died	February 25, 1796 New London, Connecticut
Previous post	Bishop of the Episcopal Dioceses of Connecticut and Rhode Island

Samuel Seabury (November 30, 1729 – February 25, 1796) was the first American Episcopal bishop, the second Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, and the first Bishop of Connecticut. He was a leading Loyalist in New York City during the American Revolution.

Samuel Seabury was born in North Groton, Connecticut in 1729. His father, also Samuel Seabury (1706–1764), was originally a Congregationalist minister in Groton but was ordained deacon and priest in the Church of England in 1730. He was a rector in New London, Connecticut from 1732 to 1743, and of St George's, Hempstead, New York on Long Island from 1743 until his death.

Samuel Seabury (the son) graduated from Yale College in 1748, and studied theology with his father. He studied medicine in Edinburgh from 1752 to 1753 and was ordained deacon by John Thomas, Bishop of Lincoln, and priest by Richard Osbaldeston, Bishop of Carlisle, on December 21 and 23 respectively, 1753. Seabury was rector of Christ Church, New Brunswick, New Jersey from 1754 to 1757, rector in Jamaica, New York from 1757 to 1766, and of St. Peter's, Westchester (now annexed to The Bronx) from 1766 to 1775.