Manton Eastburn

The Right Reverend

Manton Eastburn

D.D.
Bishop of Massachusetts
ChurchEpiscopal Church
DioceseMassachusetts
In office1843–1872
PredecessorAlexander Viets Griswold
SuccessorBenjamin Henry Paddock
Previous post(s)Coadjutor Bishop of Massachusetts (1842-1843)
Orders
OrdinationNovember 13, 1825
by John Henry Hobart
ConsecrationDecember 29, 1842
by Alexander Viets Griswold
Personal details
Born2 February 1801
Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
Died11 September 1872 (aged 71)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
BuriedMount Auburn Cemetery
NationalityEnglish
DenominationAnglican
ParentsJames Eastburn & Charlotte Browne
SpouseMary Glover (d. 1855)
Mary Jean Head
Alma materColumbia University

Manton Eastburn (1801 in Leeds, England – 1872) was an Episcopal bishop who served as the fourth Bishop of Massachusetts from 1843 till 1872.

Biography

After graduation from Columbia University, he studied at the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in the United States before ordination as deacon on May 17, 1822 and priest on November 13, 1825 by Bishop John Henry Hobart of the Diocese of New York. After serving at Christ Church, New York, New York, he became the first rector of the Church of the Ascension, New York. On December 29, 1842, he was consecrated as assistant Bishop of Massachusetts; he served as diocesan bishop on the death of Alexander Viets Griswold from 1843 until his death.

Eastburn attended the first Lambeth Conference in 1867 and was associated with the evangelical school of Episcopalian churchmanship. His tenure as diocesan bishop was marked by considerable conflict over Tractarianism both locally and nationally, particularly at the Church of the Advent in Boston.

He is buried at St. Paul's Church, in Dedham, Massachusetts.[1]

References

  1. ^ Worthington, Arthur Morton (1958). History of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Dedham (PDF).
Episcopal Church (USA) titles
Preceded by Bishop of Massachusetts
1843–1872 		Succeeded by