{"id":471,"date":"2015-05-23T18:24:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T18:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2015-06-02T05:15:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T05:15:16","slug":"creation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Creation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"color:#FF0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 22px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/Exhibit-Formation\/Fort_Pitt_in_1776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/image\/Exhibit-Formation\/Fort_Pitt_in_1776.jpg\" style=\"border-width: 5px; border-style: solid; margin: 2px 7px; float: left width: 173px; height: 128px;\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-size:14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\">Fort Pitt 1776<\/span><\/span><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size:26px;\"><span style=\"color:#B22222;\">Creation of a Church<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family:comic sans ms,cursive;\"><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Before there could be an Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh, there needed to be an Episcopal Church, and settlers with Episcopal roots needed to move west.&nbsp; From the 1770s to the 1790s, Episcopalians formed The Episcopal Church, created the Diocese of Pennsylvania and moved into the western part of the state.<\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/1750-2\/\">1750<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/1755-2\/\">1755<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/1758-2\/\">1758<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/1762-2\/\">1762<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; 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border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/1789-2\/\">1789<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" border=\"3\" cellpadding=\"1\" cellspacing=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(255, 204, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/\">Timeline<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; border-color: rgb(255, 204, 153); background-color: rgb(255, 204, 153);\">\n\t\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalpgh.org\/archives\/resources\/exhibits\/forming-the-diocese\/creation\/\">Creation<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center; 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