ADDRESS.

To the Right Reverend the Bishop of Connecticut:

DEAR BISHOP:--The Convention of your Diocese, assembled on Tuesday in Whitsun-week, at Waterbury, duly authorized us as a Committee to formally announce to you that your expressed wish that a Bishop Coadjutor should be chosen by them to relieve you of some of the arduous duties of your exalted office, has been accomplished.

The Convention, guided, as they humbly trust, by God the Holy Ghost, made choice of the Reverend Chauncey Bunce Brewster to be consecrated to that office and work.

The Committee brings to you the renewed assurance of the love and devotion of the Clergy and Laity of your Diocese to yourself, and the hope that the relief afforded you by their action may tend to lengthen your days among us; and that your strength may be increased in such measure that the sacred offices that they have been accustomed to receive at your hands may be continued to be bestowed upon them; and that they may behold your face and listen to your voice for many years to come.

Praying that the God of all Grace may continue to bestow His rich blessings upon you, and asking your prayers and your benediction upon us in all our duties, we are,

Your obedient servants and loving sons,

HENRY M. SHERMAN,
FREDERICK W. HARRIMAN,
FREDERICK J. KINGSBURY,
CHARLES E. JACKSON,

Committee.

The Resolution passed by the Convention in acknowledgment of his long and faithful episcopate (see Journal, page 51), was also read to him.

The Bishop replied with emotion, declaring himself gratified with the treatment received from the Diocese at all times, and expressing his entire approval of the choice made by the Convention, as well as of the spirit in which all its deliberations had been conducted.

Before withdrawing, the Committee knelt and received his Benediction.

VI.

DOCUMENTS ASKING CANONICAL CONSENT.

The following documents were sent by the President of the Standing Committee of this Diocese to the Standing Committee of every other Diocese in the United States, together with a blank form for returning their consent to the Consecration, as required by Title I, Canon 19, §§ ii and iii.

(NOTE.-The Degree of Doctor in Divinity was conferred upon the Bishop Coadjutor-elect by Trinity College, at Commencement, June 24, 1897.)

REQUEST FOR CONSENT

TO THE

CONSECRATION OF A BISHOP COADJUTOR

FOR THE

DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT.

To the Standing Committee of the Diocese of

The Church in the Diocese of Connecticut is desirous of the Consecration of the

Reverend CHAUNCEY BUNCE BREWSTER, D.D.,

as Bishop Coadjutor of the said Diocese: and the Standing Committee of the same, by its President, hereby communicates the said desire, together with the evidence of the Election of the said Bishop Coadjutor-elect, and also a copy of the Canonical Testimonial in his case, and respectfully asks your consent to the proposed Consecration.

STORRS O. SEYMOUR, President of the Standing Committee.

DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT, June 30, 1897.

CERTIFICATE OF THE ELECTION

OF THE

REVEREND CHAUNCEY BUNCE BREWSTER, D.D.,

TO BE

BISHOP COADJutor of the DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT.

This is to certify that, the Bishop of Connecticut having requested in writing, on the ground of his physical infirmity, that a Bishop Coadjutor be elected, and having in such request stated the duties which he would assign to the Bishop Coadjutor when duly elected and consecrated, the annual Convention of the Diocese of Connecticut, assembled in Saint John's Church, Waterbury, on Tuesday, the eighth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, did unanimously elect the

Reverend CHAUNCEY BUNCE Brewster, D.D.,

to be Bishop Coadjutor of the said Diocese in accordance with the Constitution of the Diocese and the Canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

Attest:

STORRS O. SEYMOUR,

President of the Convention. FREDERICK W. HARRIMAN,

Secretary of the Convention.

DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT, June 30, 1897.

TESTIMONY FROM THE CONVENTION

OF THE

DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT

AS TO THE

REVEREND CHAUNCEY BUNCE BREWSTER,

BISHOP COADJUTOR-ELECT.

WE, whose names are underwritten, fully sensible how important it is that the sacred office of a Bishop should not be unworthily conferred, and firmly persuaded that it is our duty to bear testimony on this solemn occasion without partiality or affection, do, in the presence of Almighty God, testify that the

Reverend CHAUNCEY BUNCE BREWSTER

is not, so far as we are informed, justly liable to evil report, either for error in religion or for viciousness in life; and that we do not know or believe there is any impediment, on account of which he ought not to be consecrated to that holy office. We do, moreover, jointly and severally declare that we do, in our conscience, believe him to be of such sufficiency in good learning, such soundness in the faith, and of such virtuous and pure manners and godly conversation, that he is apt and meet to exercise the office of a Bishop to the honour of God and the edifying of His Church, and to be a wholesome example to the flock of Christ.

CLERGY.

E. Campion Acheson, Rector of Holy Trinity Church, Middletown.
Samuel Forbes Adam, Priest in charge of the Mission of Valle Crucis, N. C.
W. G. Andrews, Rector of Christ Church, Guilford.

A. Sprague Ashley, Rector of All Saints' Memorial Church, Meriden.
Edmund Augustus Angell, Rector of St. John's Church, Washington.
George Weed Barhydt, Rector of Christ Church, Westport.
Francis W. Barnett, Rector of Christ Church, Canaan.

Wm. A. Beardsley, Rector of St. Thomas's Church, New Haven.
Allen Everett Beeman, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Fairfield.
Jacob A. Biddle, Rector of St. Mary's Church, South Manchester.
John Binney, Sub-Dean of the Berkeley Divinity School.
Louis Norman Booth, Rector of Trinity Church, Bridgeport.
Ralph H. Bowles, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Huntington.
Chas. W. Boylston, Rector of Grace Church, Long Hill.
James W. Bradin, Rector of St. John's Church, Hartford.

Wm. J. Brewster, Rector-elect of St. Andrew's Church, Northford.

Cornelius G. Bristol, Rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Hartford.
George Israel Brown, Rector of Trinity Church, Branford.

J. Eldred Brown, Rector of Trinity Church, Norwich.
George Buck, Rector of St. James's Church, Poquetanuck.
George H. Buck, Rector of St. James's Church, Derby.

F. D. Buckley, Rector of Trinity Church, Waterbury.

Jos. P. Cameron, Rector, South Glastonbury and Glastonbury.
Walter T. Cavell, Rector of Trinity Church, Collinsville.

Adelbert P. Chapman, Minister in charge of St. James's Church, Fair Haven.
Sylvester Clarke, Berkeley Divinity School.

Herbert D. Cone, Rector of Christ Church, Bridgeport.

N. Ellsworth Cornwall, Rector of Christ Church Stratford.
H. N. Cunningham, Rector of Christ Church, Watertown.

Wilfrid H Dean, Rector of St. John's Church, North Guilford.

S. W. Derby.

George William Douglas. Rector of Trinity Church, New Haven.
Charles H. Doupé, New Haven.

Jared W. Ellsworth, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Naugatuck.
Wolcott Webster Ellsworth, Rector of Christ Church, Unionville.
Foster Ely, Rector of St. Stephen's Church, Ridgefield.

J. D. Ewing, Rector of Christ Church, Middle Haddam.
James P. Faucon, Christ Church, Hartford.

Percy T. Fenn, Rector of St. John's Church, Essex.
Henry Ferguson, Professor in Trinity College, Hartford.
David L. Ferris, Curate of St. John's Church, Stamford.
John H. Fitzgerald, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Hebron.

Louis French, Rector of St. Luke's Church, Darien.

Arthur J. Gammack, Priest in charge of St. Gabriel's Church, East Berlin. James Gammack, LL.D., Rector of St. James's Church, West Hartford. Frederic Gardiner, Rector of Christ Church, Pomfret.

James H. George, Rector of St. John's Church, Salisbury.

R. H. Gesner, Rector of Christ Church, West Haven.

Alfred Goldsborough, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Monroe.

Francis Goodwin, Hartford.

Eugene Griggs, Rector of St. Mark's Church, Mystic.

Alfred Poole Grint, Rector of St. James's Church, New London.

George Chapman Griswold, Rector of Christ Church, Sharon.

Alexander Hamilton.

John Thompson Hargrave, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Woodbury, and Christ Church, Bethlehem.

Frederick W. Harriman, Rector of Grace Church, Windsor.

J. E. Heald, Minister of Trinity Church, Tariffville.

William E. Hooker, Rector of St. Matthew's Church, Wilton.

Joseph Hooper, Rector of Epiphany Church, Durham, and Lecturer in Berkeley Divinity School.

Walter Downs Humphrey, Rector of Christ Church, Roxbury.

John T. Huntington, Rector of St. James's Church, Hartford.

W. Herbert Hutchinson, Rector of St. Peter's Church, Milford.

Samuel F. Jarvis, Rector of Trinity Church, Brooklyn.

W. Allen Johnson, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Berkeley Divinity School.

Charles Judd, Curate in St. John's Church, Stamford.

Robert B. Kimber. Rector of Trinity Church, Seymour.

Wm. C. Knowles, Emmanuel Church, Killingworth, and St. James's Chapel,
Ponsett.

Wm. H. Lewis, Rector of St John's Church, Bridgeport.
Hermann Lilienthal, Rector of Trinity Church, Wethersfield.
Edwin S. Lines, Rector of St. Paul's Church, New Haven.
J. Chauncey Linsley, Rector of Trinity Church, Torrington.
George T. Linsley, Rector of Trinity Church, Newtown.
Flavel S. Luther, Professor in Trinity College.
Henry Macbeth, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Windham.

George K. MacNaught, Minister in charge of Grace Chapel, Hartford.

W. Ingram Magill, Rector of Calvary Church, Round Hill.

Frank H. Marshall, Minister in Church of the Ascension, New Haven
Theodore D. Martin, Jr., Rector of Grace Church, Stafford Springs.
Edward Thomson Mathison, Rector of Immanuel Church, Ansonia.

March C. Mayo, Curate in St. John's Church, Waterbury.

Stewart Means, Rector of St. John's Church, New Haven.

Elmer Truesdell Merrill, Rich Professor of Latin in Wesleyan University. Ernest de F. Miel, Rector of Trinity Church, Hartford.

Herbert L. Mitchell, Rector of Grace Church, Yantic.

Wm. Morrall.

R. H. Neidé, Rector of St. Mark's Church, New Canaan.

John F. Nichols, temporarily in charge of Trinity Church, Bristol.
Fred. W. Norris, Rector of Trinity Church, South Norwalk.

James D. S. Pardee, Rector of Grace Church, Saybrook.

Arthur T. Parsons, Rector of Trinity Church, Thomaston, and Trinity
Church, Northfield.

Theodore M. Peck, General Missionary of the New London Archdeaconry.
George W. Phillips, Assistant Minister, St. Paul's Church, New Haven.
John F. Plumb, Rector of St. John's Church, New Milford.
Sylvanus B. Pond, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Norwalk.
Collis I. Potter, Presbyter.

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Trinity College, Hartford.

Arthur T. Randall, Rector of St. Andrew's Church, Meriden.
Edmund Rowland, Rector of St. John's Church, Waterbury.
Francis T. Russell, Rector of St. Margaret's School, Waterbury.
Lindall W. Saltonstall, Rector of Christ Church, Hartford.
Frederick R. Sanford, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Riverside.
E. B. Schmitt, Rector of Calvary Church, Stonington.
Chas. O. Scoville, Curate in Trinity Church, New Haven.

Storrs O. Seymour, Rector of St. Michael's Church, Litchfield.

J. Frederick Sexton, Rector of St. James's Church, Westville.

Charles Norman Shepard, Fellow of the General Theological Seminary, New York.

P. L. Shepard, Rector of the Church of the Holy Advent, Clinton.

Lucius W. Shey, Bridgeport.

John Dolby Skene, Rector of St. James's Church, Danbury.

George Milnor Stanley, Rector of St. James's Church, Winsted.

James Stoddard, Holy Trinity Church, Middletown.

Hiram Stone, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Bantam, and Trinity Church.
Milton.

Wm. Alonzo Swan, Rector of Christ Church, Redding.
Henry Tarrant, Rector of Trinity Church, Lime Rock.
M. George Thompson, Rector of Christ Church, Greenwich.
John Townsend, Rector of Christ Church, Middletown.
H. Nelson Tragitt, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Waterville.
Henry N. Wayne, Rector of St. Mark's Church, New Britain.
R. Bancroft Whipple, Rector of Christ Church, Tashua.
E. L. Whitcome, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Brookfield.
J. E. Wildman, Rector of St. Paul's Church, Wallingford.

George Hewson Wilson, Curate of Holy Trinity Church, Middletown.
Charles E. Woodcock, Rector of Christ Church, Ansonia.

Arthur H. Wright, Rector of St. John's Church, Warehouse Point.
Thomas Henry Yardley, Christ Church, New Haven.

Ralph C. Meigs, Church of the Holy Advent, Clinton.

Asa R. Bigelow, Calvary Church, Colchester.

Wm. H. Barnum, St. James's Church, Danbury.
Frank Green, St. Luke's Church, Darien.

Julius Attwood, St. Stephen's Church, East Haddam.
W. R. Goodspeed,

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Henry J. Glover, St. Paul's Church, Fairfield.