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Hopkins, John Henry

bishop, author, was born Jan. 30, 1792, in Ireland.

He was the first protestant episcopal bishop of Vermont. A writer of vigor and versatility, prominent both as a high churchman and a controversialist. He was the author of History of the Confessional; The End of Controversy Controverted; The Primitive Church; Essay on Gothic Architecture; The Church of Rome in Her Primitive Purity; Scriptural View of Slavery, a defence of the institution; Law of Ritualism; Lectures on the Reformation; Twelve Canzonets, words and music; and History of the Church. He died Jan, 9, 1868, in Rock Point, Vt.