History This Month
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October 1
On this day in 965, John XIII became pope. He was one of the few popes to not change his name on his accession.
October 2
On this day in 1808, Allen Chatfield, priest and hymn translator, was born at Catteris (Cambridgeshire), England.
October 2
On this day in 1921, Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury from 1980–1991, was born in Great Crosby.
October 3
On this day in 1993, Robert Reed Shahan was consecrated bishop coadjutor of Arizona.
October 4
On this day in 1902, Gregory Dix, Anglican Benedictine scholar and author of "The Shape of the Liturgy," was born at Woolwich, England.
October 5
On this day in 1528, Richard Foxe died. Foxe was successively Bishop of Exeter, Bath and Wells, Durham, and Winchester, Lord Privy Seal, and founder of Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
October 5
On this day in 1866, Daniel Tuttle was chosen as missionary bishop of Montana, Idaho and Utah.
October 6
On this day in 1510, Rowland Taylor was born in Northumberland, England. Taylor, an Anglican priest, was the third victim of Queen Mary I as she attempted to bring about Roman Catholic reforms in England.
October 6
On this day in 1874, John E. Bode, priest and hymnist, died.
October 7
On this day in 1573, William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Readin, Berkshire. Laud was a fervent supporter of King Charles I of England, whom he encouraged to believe in divine right.
October 7
On this day in 1810, Henry Alford, priest and compiler of the first comprehensive English commentary on Greek New Testament, was born in London.
October 8
On this day in 1882, Walter Russell Bowie, priest and theologian, was born in Richmond, Virginia.
October 9
On this day in 1845, English churchman John Henry Newman, leader of the Oxford Movement, made his celebrated conversion from Anglicanism to the Roman Catholic Church.
October 10
On this day in 1747, John Potter, Archbishop of Canterbury, died.
October 11
On this day in 1521, Pope Leo X (1475–1521) conferred the title of Fidei Defensor ("Defender of the Faith") on Henry VIII of England) as a reward for Henry's Defense of the Seven Sacraments, published in answer to Martin Luther's Babylonian Captivity.
October 11
On this day in 1896, Edward White Benson, Archbishop of Canterbury, died.
October 12
On this day in 1602, William Chillingworth was born in Oxford, England.
October 13
On this day in 1759, John Henley, commonly known as 'Orator Henley,' died. Henley was one of the first entertainers and a precursor to the talk show hosts of today.
October 14
On this day in 1891, Phillips Brooks was consecrated bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston's Trinity Church.
October 15
On this day in 1881, William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Exeter, England.
October 16
On this day in 1812, Henry Martyn, Anglican missionary and Bible translator in India, died in Tokat, Asia Minor.
October 17
On this day in 1998, James B. Lemler was installed as eighth dean of Seabury-Western Seminary in Evanston, Illinois.
October 18
On this day in 1888, Leighton Coleman was installed as the fourth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware.
October 19
On this day in 1562, George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, was born in Guildford, England. His rise to leadership of the Anglican Church followed his defense of the hereditary monarchy and his efforts to combine the English and Scottish churches.
October 21
On this day in 1986, the House of Bishops in England agreed that a bishop of the Church of England should not exercise episcopal care over a priest and congregation situated in a diocese of another province except with the consent of the proper authorities of that province.
October 22
On this day in 1990, the diocesan synod of the Anglican Diocese of Cape Town, South Africa, voted overwhelmingly in favor of the ordination of women to the priesthood.
October 23
On this day in 1994, James Ottley of Panama assumed the role of Anglican observer at the United Nations.
October 24
On this day in 1865, the 28th General Convention of the Episcopal Church concluded in Philadelphia.
October 24
On this day in 1885, James R. Woodford, hymnist, died in Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
October 25
On this day 1958, Martin F. Shaw, English sacred music organist, died.
October 25
On this day in 1877, the 32nd General Convention of the Episcopal Church concluded in Boston.
October 26
On this day in 1990, Charles A. Perry was inaugurated as dean of Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California.
October 27
On this day in 1978, the complete New International Version of the Bible was published by Zondervan Publishers of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
October 29
On this day in 1704, John Locke, English philosopher, died in Essex, England.
October 30
On this day in 1807, Christopher Wordsworth, priest, scholar and hymnist, was born at Lambeth, England.
October 31
On this day in 1907, Daniel C. Roberts, priest and hymnist, died in Concord, New Hampshire.
October 31
On this day in 1980, the U.S. Postal Service issued a Christmas stamp based on a stained glass window in Washington National Cathedral.
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