Publisher's Synopsis
Compares and contrasts the Episcopal ministries of Samuel Seabury (1729-96) and Charles Inglis (1734-1816), respectively the first bishops of the Anglican churches in the United States and Canada. It includes an examination of the introduction of Episcopal ministry into virgin territory, respecting such matters as confirmation, ordination, and clerical discipline, and argues that the polity and liturgy of each national church established in Seabury's and Inglis' era has had implications reaching far beyond their own times.
