1787

Samuel Provoost     

William White      

4 February 1787

White and Provoost are consecrated bishops in England by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of Bath & Wells, and the Bishop of Peterborough at Lambeth Palace in London.  (The third bishop-elect, David Griffiths of Virginia, was never able to travel to England. )

7 April 1787

White and Provoost land in New York and begin their episcopacies.

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