Benjamin Bosworth Smith

Benjamin Bosworth Smith (1784-1884) was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop. He was born at Bristol, R. I., and graduated at Brown University in 1816. The following year he was ordained, beginning his ministry at Marblehead, Mass. He held several pastoral charges and was for a time editor of the Episcopal Recorder at Philadelphia. His last rectorship, in Lexington, Ky., he held until 1837, though in 1832 he had become Bishop of the diocese. While he was presiding Bishop (from 1868) was organized the separatist movement which became the Reformed Episcopal church, under the leadership of Bishop Smith's own assistant bishop, George David Cummins. He published Saturday Evening (1876) and Apostolic Succession (1877).
==External links==
* Documents by and about B.B. Smith from Project Canterbury
* The Life and Ministry of Benjamin Bosworth Smith, First Bishop of Kentucky: A Memorial Discourse delivered before the Fifty-sixth Annual Council of the Diocese of Kentucky, on the 24th Day of September, A.D., 1884, in Christ Church, Louisville, by Alfred Lee (1884)
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Category:American religious writers
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:19th-century Anglican bishops
Category:People from Rhode Island
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Category:1884 deaths
Category:19th-century bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
Category:Presiding Bishops of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America