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Jubilee To Be Celebrated By
Bishop Vincent

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will witness one of the most notable
demonstrations of love, respect and
yeneration that has ever been paid to
prelate of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the United States. The oc-
casion will be the twenty-fifth ami
of the Rt. Rev. Boyd Vincent as bish-
op Of southern Ohio. Arrangements
for the jubilee celebration have been
going forward for many weeks and to-
day the final details of the programme
were completed.
The celebration will be divided into
two parts The church celebration
will be held tomorrow and will be fol-
lowed on Monday by the social feat
uIes of the programme. The opening
service will be held in st. Paul's Ca
thedral at 1880 o'clock tomorrow
morning Coadjutor Bishop Reese of
Columbus will be the principal speak.
er. At II O'clock there will be
another service, with Bishop White
head of Pittsburgh as the speaker. A
special feature OF this service viii be
the music, for the choir will sing
festival te deum as a special act of
thanksgiving for the Bishops episco-
bate
Sunday evening there will be
great Episcopal reunion service at the
cathedral The principal speaker
will be Bishop Leonard of Cleveland,
DR.. d. w. Rhodes of Cincinnati and
}. A. Gallaher of Marietta. Among
the Episcopal church leaders who will
take part in the various services of
the day, in addition to the prelates
already named, win be Bishop Tuttle
of st. Louis, Bishop Woodcock of
Louisville, Bishop Burton of Lexing-
ton, Bishop Frances of indianapolis,
Bishop White Of Michigan City, Bish-
op Anderson Of Chicago, and Bishop
Gravatt of West Virginia.
The programme for Monday will
open with morning service in the
cathedral at which Bishop Vincent
will celebrate holy communion and
deliver an address. AT noon the cath
cdral congregation will give a lunch
con for the Bishop and the noted
visitors. In the afternoon Bishop Vim
cent win receive tho visiting bishops
and clergy at the Episcopal residence.
The programme will be concluded in
the evening with a reception by the
Episcopal Church club.
During his long residence in this
city Bishop VINCENT has endeared
himself to persons without regard to
creed or condition, by his Christian
charity, his iu0qite tact, his uniyer.
sal sympathy and his sincere inter
est in all that concerned the public
welfare.
Bishop Vincent was born in Erie,
Pa, in lS45 lie, studied at Yale Uni
versity and graduated with the degree
Of B. A, in 1867 receiving the degree
VI NA' ~ thA CN ~ fll ldISls liS Slduu-
ated also at Berkeley Divinity School
in 1871 The same year he was or
dained a deacon of the Episcopal
Church, and the following year was
ordained priest by Bishop Kerfoot,
After entering the ministry as deac-
on, he was assistant of st. Paul's
Church, in Erie, until 1872, when he
accepted call to the rectorship of
the Church of the Cross and Crown,
in Erie, remaining there two years.
In 1874 he became rector of Calvary
Church in Pittsburgh, officiating
there for fifteen years and resigning
in 1889 to become bishop coadjutor
Of southern Ohio. He was consecrat-
ed by Bishops Whitehead, Dudley
Spalding, Penick and Knickerbocker.
Five years later he was made bishop
Of Southern Ohin