John Henry Hobart was among the Episcopal Church’s great leaders in the first decades of the nineteenth century. On September 14, 1775, he was born in Philadelphia and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. William White, bishop of Pennsylvania, ordained him deacon in 1798 and priest in 1801. Yet a year earlier, in 1800, he became an assistant minister at Trinity Church Wall Street, where the rector was the second bishop of New York, Samuel Provoost.
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