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Southgate, Horatio

bishop, au thor, was born July 5, 1812, in Portland, Maine. He was the first and only protestant episcopal bishop of Constantinople. He was consecrated in 1844, but resigned his office in 1850, and held various rectorships subsequently, including that of Zion church, New York city, in 1859-72, in which latter year he retired from active duties. He was the author of The Cross Above the Crescent; Parochial Sermons; Narrative of a Tour Through Armenia, etc.; The War in the East; and Practical Directions for the Observance of Lent. He died in 1894.

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