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Celebrating Absalom Jones

February 19, 2023 @ 3:00 pm 4:30 pm

An in-person gathering celebrating Absalom Jones

A Service of Witness to Black Ministry in the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey

Absalom Jones Service of Witness to Black Clergy

Feb. 19
3:00 p.m.

Sponsored by: Black Clergy Caucus Commission on Black Ministries Union of Black Episcopalians

Presiding: The Right Reverend William H. ‘“Chip” Stokes Bishop of NJ

Preaching: The Rev. James N. Wilson, II St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Pleasantville, NJ

Highlighting: Christ the King Episcopal Church, Willingboro, NJ

Contact
Ven. Lynn H. Johnson, Archdeacon
Canon Clive Sang, Deacon
Ms. Linda Shomo, President EBS-UBE  

Celebrating the life and ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones, the first African-American ordained to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church, 1804.

Born into slavery, Jones founded the first African-American Episcopal congregation–the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia.

Ten years later, in 1802, he was the first African American to be ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church of the United States. He is listed on the Episcopal calendar of saints. He is remembered liturgically on the date of his death, February 13, in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.

Details

Date:
February 19, 2023
Time:
3:00 pm—4:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Organizer

BCC, COBM, UBE-EBS Chapter
Email
revlhj2000@comcast.net. clivesang81@verizon.net lwshomo@yahoo.com