Benjamin B. Smith

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Bishop B. B. Smith.

Benjamin Bosworth Smith (June 13, 1794 – 1884) was an American Protestant Episcopal bishop.

Early life

He was born at Bristol, R. I., and lost his father when he was 5 years old. Nonetheless, he graduated at Brown University in 1816.

Career

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), a separatist movement, which became the Reformed Episcopal Church, was organized under the leadership of Bishop Smith's own assistant bishop, George David Cummins. He published Saturday Evening (1876) and Apostolic Succession (1877).

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: 

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)

Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by John Henry Hopkins	9th Presiding Bishop 1868–1884	Succeeded by Alfred Lee
Preceded by New Diocese	1st Bishop of Kentucky 1832-1884	Succeeded by Thomas U. Dudley